Psychic Migrations Lookbook

Psychic Migrations Krista Dedrick-Lai | Tyler Kline

presented at Courtyard by the Marriott | November 2023 - March 2024

Cover image: Tyler Kline, Copralite (detail)

Right: Krista Dedrick-Lai, exhibition view Opposite: Krista Dedrick-Lai Eternal, Lonely Journey (detail)

Psychic Migrations brings together the paintings of Krista Dedrick-Lai and small sculptures of Tyler Kline. Through their respective practices, each artist treads the boundaries between abstraction and representation, shifting between the familiar registers of everyday life and bright portals to unfamiliar realms, exploring psychic states and dreamscapes through dazzling color, complex forms, and evocative textures.

Krista Dedrick-Lai “A lot of what I am thinking about when I’m making artwork, whether that’s a painting or sculpture made of garden hoses and old clothes, is how to find a way through difficult circumstances or difficult feelings, into a place that is a little easier and, perhaps, even beautiful.”

Opposite: Krista Dedrick-Lai Eye to Eye, 2021 Acrylic and paint marker 48 x 60” $4,500

Krista Dedrick-Lai Days Above Days Below 2023 Acrylic, 27 x 32” $2,000

Krista Dedrick-Lai Asymptote, 2022 Acrylic, 48 x 56”

Krista Dedrick-Lai Mary, Mary Quite Contrary 2022 Acrylic, 42 x 53”

$4,200

$3,500

Krista Dedrick-Lai is a multidisciplinary artist whose work confronts the everyday struggles of motherhood, domesticity, and being human. Through honest painterly application, the artist reveals, questions and normalizes the taboo brokenness of the every day. With a full range of bright neon marks to dark ominous brushstrokes, Dedrick-Lai negotiates the nonlinear space of healing and acceptance, perpetually carving out spaces of light in the dark, and methodically making a way forward.

Krista Dedrick-Lai Eternal, Lonely Journey, 2021 Acrylic and paint marker on canvas 48 x 60” $4,500

Tyler Kline “I am extremely influenced by collaboration, composting and gardening, and searching for meaning and direction in the embodied mythology of our lives: the psychic migration from virtual to visceral realms we all do daily.”

Opposite page, left to right: Tyler Kline Babel BC, 2011 Bronze, 11 x 8 x 7” $3,000

Unfolded Platonic Solid, 2011 Cast bronze and enamel 11 x 9 x 9” (left) Iron Tower of Mars (detail)

$1,000

Tyler Kline’s sculptures serve multiple purposes: avatars, fetishes, shrines, game pieces, exploration of hyperbolic form, and speculation on nonanthropocentric life forms. Future Goals consists of creating expanded gaming systems, mobile temples, sites of divination, and accumulation of photosynthesised energies in the form of a spaceship: The Viridian Quantum Loop Vessels.

Tyler Kline Iron Tower of Mars I Cast iron, 15 x 5 x 5” $1,000

Iron Tower of Mars II Cast iron, 9 x 5 x 5” $600

Tyler Kline Copralite, 2011 Cast bronze 8 x 6 x 6” $500

Krista Dedrick-Lai, exhibition view

Tyler Kline exhibition view

1400 N. American Street, suite 314 Philadelphia, PA (215) 235.3405 www.inliquid.org

Open Wednesday - Saturday, 12- 6pm & by appointment For inquiries and appointments, contact (215) 235-2405.

1001 Intrepid Avenue Philadelphia, PA

All works in the show are available for purchase on Artsy.