induction gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Emma Kearney. A solo presentation of new sculptures, drawings, and sculptural paintings that exist at the threshold between the known and unknown, the sacred and the mundane.

The artist’s practice involves remaining open, seeking evidence, tangible or intangible, of life persisting beyond death.

Ten seeing stones propped on salvaged staircase rails function as tools for scrying, or the technique of meditating on a reflective or porous object in order to connect the conscious and unconscious mind. Seven drawings, rendered in varying degrees of clarity, mirror one’s stage of departure. A single charred cedar privacy screen offers porous passage for the solitary crossing. Two paintings, closed on their hinges, create a symbolic portal from one realm to the next. These works expand on the artists’ interpretation of the Templon, an early pagan and later adopted Christian structural element used to separate the laity from the holy. This barrier was later sacralized, decorated, hallowed as its own living shrine, perhaps a reverence of the barrier or portal itself.

Together, these works propose the blurry state of uncertainty, a swinging pendulum of failure and perception, however in its most honest of condition. Kearney makes objects for that threshold; a forest in which you can feel at your back, even if you cannot say exactly where it begins.