Anglim/Trimble is pleased to present Mildred’s Howard’s iconic bottle houses and unseen prints from her recent exhibition The Time and Space of Now: Moving Stills.
Excerpt from The Time and Space of Now: Moving Stills:
In 1959, when Mildred Howard was 14 years old, she and her mother traveled by train from the Bay Area to visit extended family. First stopping in Galveston, TX, they traveled to other cities and small towns, from Houston to Chicago and then on to Kansas. Throughout the journey, Mildred documented events with her 8mm camera.Over the years these films disappeared, but in 2021, Mildred found the reels in a purse that had belonged to her mother. From these films, the video project The Time and Space of Now was developed.
In The Time and Space of Now: Moving Stills, these reels find a new life: developed with the assistance of Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA, over thirty film stills have been reproduced as monoprints on deacidified vintage wallpaper.
The monoprints function on multiple levels, both as political journey and family history. The sense of the passage of time and the accretion of age are complimented both by the original images as well as the surfaces they are printed on. The work is not so much nostalgic as elegiac. Each individual monoprint functions as a memory poem to a place and time that has receded into history and yet echoes in our present day.
Bottle Houses is on view through Saturday, January 25.
Mildred Howard is a Bay Area born artist, educator, and chef recognized for her large-scale public commissions. Howard’s work is included in the Berkeley Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, FAMSF, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
