Riddles of the Ground (2025)

Riddles of the Ground
Texas A&M International University Fine and Performing Arts Gallery, Laredo, TX
April 29-May 29, 2025

Press Release:
Riddles of the Ground is a two-person exhibition featuring the works of Sandra Amoabeng and Emily Rice. Having recently relocated to Laredo, these artists investigate the surrounding landscape, finding connections to their practices and between their practices. Riddles of the Ground surveys everyday objects that are passed by and tread over. The exhibition invites witnesses to consider matter as alive. The aliveness is in scrap metal, soil, and seeds. It is in the air, colors, textures from town, a grackle’s call outside of an HEB, and jollof simmering on the stove. There are questions leading to more questions: What does it mean to be a kind neighbor? How can one be a good friend? How can we better care for the proximal? Pigment rich sculptural drawings by Amoabeng and Rice combine to create a garden of hope with a collaborative gift.