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insecurity Feb.3 - Mar. 18 Angie Reed Garner Will Garner Aleksandra Stone "Insecurity," a three-person show at garner narrative, opens Friday February 3 and continues through Sunday, March 18. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 1-6, First Fridays 1-8. Exhibits are free and open to the public. Angie Reed Garner (oil painting), Will Garner (mixed media) and Aleksandra Stone (collage) offer up their personal responses to 2020-2023.  Angie Reed Garner explores groundless self-confidence. "I'm intrigued by the possibility of leaning on nothing--carrying on without an internal armature of validated expertise, authority or hope for success. What lies beyond 'fake it till you make it?' Maybe it's just rolling up your sleeves. When I began dragon baby, groundless confidence seemed a mythical quality that allowed dragons to fly, a mirage, something I'd be lucky to taste for a fleeting moment on a very good day. Now it's more ordinary, it's what my cat does."  Will Garner considers how we assess and manage risk. "When presented with any sort of decision framed as a binary choice, it is a useful habit to immediately think of a few others, even if they are awful ones. Sink or swim... with a shark? What if you hold still? What if you are the shark? (Do sharks even have the ability to sink? They say they can never stop swimming.) What if you float, flashing your teeth, seeing teeth snap all around you? Surviving. That's your life now, there in the water, sink or..."   Aleksandra Stone lived in New York City in 2020, paying rent of $2,300 a month. Every freelance gig supporting her art practice disappeared almost overnight, and the bodies of coronavirus victims accumulated on the sidewalk outside her apartment in refrigerated trailers. "Much of what was happening in NYC in 2020 was just similar enough to the wartime trauma I experienced as a child in Yugoslavia that I began suffering from intense PTSD symptoms during a time it was almost impossible to get mental health treatment." Stone began to shred US currency. Stimulate the American Household reacts to the dichotomy between the programs assisting property owners, including mortgage forbearance, and the lethal lack of assistance for Americans that are renting.
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