Corinne Beardsley: The Companion March 7 - March 30, 2025
The Companion
March 7 - March 30, 2025
Opening Reception First Friday, March 7, 6-9 pm
The Companion is a crude life-size foam puppet Beardsley performed with in her Brooklyn apartment during isolation in the first few months of Covid 2020. Through observational humor and parodying the theater of influence, The Companion was “thriving in uncertain times”. Embedded in this project is the Pygmalion / Galatea power dynamic between the sculptor and enlivened object of affection. The two performed their own reality show, highlighting the absurdity of quarantining with a puppet boyfriend, and #relationshipgoals.
In celebration of The Companion’s fifth birthday this March, Practice Gallery is revisiting this performance. The audience is invited to select a random prompt to get to know The Companion in the domestic installation. Practice Gallery also presents photo albums, videos, and ephemera from the 2020 and 2021 performances.
Artist’s Bio:
The transformative processes of Corinne Beardsley’s materials reflect on our fragile relationship with the environment, and how we are shaped by technology. Corinne is from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and received a MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Hartford Art School. Select solo and group exhibitions include Field Projects, Sargent Daughters/Shrine, Flowers Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, ADS Gallery, Real Art Ways, and Salisbury University Gallery, among others. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies including at the Vermont Studio Center, Red Lodge ClayCenter, Central Academy of Fine Art, Babayan Culture House, University of Tasmania and Poh Chang University. Currently she lives in the Hudson Valley NY.
