Hilary Nelson
August 13, 2024.
Hilary Nelson is an artist living and working between New Mexico and Iowa.
Their work combines ideas of the familiar and alien through sculpture, installation, and drawing. Material exploration acts as a foundation to confront the paradox implicit in the idea of something being “finished”. When does “usefulness” end?
The materials at the Fish Factory, collected and left over from when it was still operating as a factory became vehicles for Hilary to think about ghosts of industry, place, ecology, and community. Broken down cars and the changing tide in the harbor made space for daily exploration of things that might fit, or not!
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Website: https://www.hilary-nelson.com/