TOURNIQUET
Manuela Arnal, Cozette Russell, and Tamsen Williams
Thursday July 17 through Monday July 21, 2025
Thursday through Sunday: 11am – 6 pm, Happy hour every day at 4 pm
Monday: 10 am – 2 pm
Also open by appointment - Contact: cozetterussell@gmail.com
THE POST OFFICE 158 West Main Street, Port Ewen, NY
“And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern—it strangles so” – The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
it strangles so
it strangles so
it strangles so
it strangles so
it strangles so
In this assembly of sculpture, installations, photographs, and drawings, TOURNIQUET explores dialogues on containment and boundedness, where moving tensions ratchet or pivot against desire and release.
Manuela Arnal
The show is rooted by Arnal’s large-scale sculpture, Bundle II, a metaphor for identity—holding what is unseen but deeply present. The outer tarp of Bundle, found in her native Bolivia, holds years of accumulated trash, compressed and tightly contained. Skins, made of the remains of plastic bags, are ephemeral sculptures evoking vestiges of skins abandoned in a process of metamorphosis. Erase My Name consists of abstract graphite drawings on wooden boards. Through an economy of shapes, blurred layers, and the slow accumulation of marks can be spotted an allusion to travel, memory, and transformation.
Cozette Russell
In her photographic sculptures, Russell explores image making where duality can be an intermediate, an in-between existence, caught in cinematic sequences, mirrors, and fragments. These layers bind the photographs in their material form and resist immediacy. In Untitled (summer studio/winter studio) I and II, created one year apart, Russell’s concentration on layering turns to layers of reproduction. In both, Russell manipulates an image into collage form and rephotographs it in her barn studio.
Tamsen Williams
Working in mixed media, including ceramic, dryer lint and stone, Williams' figurative sculptures oscillate between play and something darker. Fragments balance together in uncomfortable pairings, some hang from the ceiling, some barely supported, tethered together this way, for now. Williams’ sculptures explore the space between disorientation and reorientation, odd sight lines, uncomfortable changes of scale, all with the unsettling allusion to grotesquerie, with their disturbing balance between the humorous and the monstrous.
9 x 12 in
For Tourniquet, Arnal will create Bundle II, a site spacific installation in the Post Office