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I have an exhibition opening this Saturday! Dreamscapes is a retrospective of 23 works made over the last 16 years that engages the land as both collaborator and subject and was made almost exclusively at my home in Tennessee.

“Blurring the boundaries between photography, sculpture, and ecological installation, Dreamscapes explores the quiet threshold where reality and imagination coexist. Russell’s interventions do not seek to alter the landscape so much as reveal its potential, creating moments that feel at once impossible and deeply familiar. Grounded in a profound relationship with place, the photographs invite viewers to pause and consider the ways wonder can emerge from the landscapes we inhabit every day.”

Dreamscapes is on view at @theuntitlednashvillehotel from August 8th, 2026 through January 31st, 2027.

Join me this Saturday for the opening party from 6-9pm at @theuntitlednashvillehotel in downtown Nashville

Works pictured:
-And the night illuminated the night, 2012*
-When I’m done don’t bury me (just lay me in a field of flowers), 2012
-The commodification of dreams, 2025
-Altar (Sentient stars), 2016
-I see it in existence not in essence, 2012*

*works made in collaboration with Rya Kleinpeter

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Still recovering from the fast and furious install @theholenyc l!! So excited to be showing work out in Los Angeles for the first time (my hometown) and to be debuting some new wood works. Special thanks to all those who helped make it happen! Come see in person!!
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Night Vision/Carolyn Salas
April 19 – May 24, 2025
844 N La Brea
Los Angeles

The Hole is proud to present Night Vision, with Carolyn Salas her first solo show in Los Angeles—a kind of homecoming for the Hollywood-born artist. The exhibition includes key works from her recent museum show at the NMSU Art Museum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, alongside new stained wood inlay pieces.

Salas’ practice sits somewhere between sculpture and spell. Inspired by ancient reliefs, caryatids, and sacred architecture, her work draws on a deep lineage of female form—but pushes it into new terrain. Her figures are fragmented, stylized, sometimes ghostlike. Rendered in carved wood,, or aluminum, they evoke Matisse cut-outs, Egyptian carvings, and the sensuous purity of Brancusi, while speaking in a distinctly contemporary, feminist language.

New to this iteration are Salas’ stained maple wood inlay works: luminous compositions made from interlocking, cut wood shapes that evoke bodies, vessels, celestial symbols. There’s something sacred in their geometry, like spiritual diagrams or coded icons from an ancient system. The color pulls out the wood’s natural grain, while the smooth contours feel both handcrafted and futuristic. Unlike the screens and cutouts she has been known for, these new works can’t help but offer a sense of completeness, like the satisfaction of completing a puzzle. With the hundreds of small wood components coming together, filling her usual negative space, these works pursue fulfillment.

The Blue Lady, 2025
Stained wood, maple
5ft x 6ft

#carolynsalas
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Christmas Brunch

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#kissedagirl #ilikedit @missryak #lukegilford @lukegilford #bloodorange

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#💋 @missryak

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The dream of the union forms another figure

2013. From Hazing the Muse. A collaborative body of work with Rya Kleinpeter.

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Happiest Birthday to my sistah from anothuh Mistuh. Love you to the moon 🌖

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Oh, we have fun. 💫 @benjyrussellphotos @explodedviews @zollieoo @alkeemi @missryak @stacykranitz @tamarareynoldsphotography @xpayneart @alexblau1999 @_nommo_ @kellyswilliams_studio etc etc etc

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