Going-To-The-Sun Road
April 22 - June 4, 2022
Belong Gallery, 2712 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL
Across new multimedia works, including collaged and quilted pieces, Megan Finch recounts the majestic landscapes of her Pacific Northwest upbringing. Working with religious reverence and a calloused hand, she brings together materials that call up hearthfronts, homesteads, and long stretches between towns to create objects that hum and rumble with sensibility. Refracted by memory, fogged over with nostalgia, these places are also unblemished by occupants; the viewer experiences them awestruck and alone.
Like the land itself, Finch’s creations emerge as sometimes rough, sometimes elegant, sometimes mundane, and sometimes magnificent. The surfaces are battered, the fabrics worn, the patterns energetic. The rock is dirty on one side and glittering on the other. The spectacular complexity of a stunning vista is rubbed down to reveal the wallpaper in your great-grandmother’s bathroom. This work reaches out towards transcendence and finds something to touch.
Rock Songs (for Susan), 2019
Parlour and Ramp, 2130 W 21st St, Chicago IL 60608
Raised in the Pacific Northwest, based in Chicago, Megan Finch is a multimedia artist who explores issues of beauty, memory, and autobiography through the lens of the landscape. Her work is inspired by Bob Ross, poetry, religion, bad TV, “The Great American West”, and blue collar labor. Watching the sun set on an industrial skyline, reminded of the mountains of home, Finch assembles her own Americana for the viewer: each piece a sense-memory, a glimpse around a corner, a point on an emotional map.
