K. Grant Fine Art is proud to present Process & Presence, the gallery’s third exhibition, featuring new works by Jasmine Parsia and Viscaya Wagner. This show unites two Vermont-based women whose practices merge art and design, highlighting the dynamic interplay of form, materiality, space, and process.

On view: December 7, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, December 7, 6–9 pm

Jasmine Parsia’s collection of monotypes, paper weavings, and drawings consider themes of language and communication, materiality, transference, and chance. Created through a ritual of repetition, imagery and symbols are translated from one process to another, accumulating new meaning, understanding, and memory as they echo across each piece, shaped by the spiral of making and remaking.

An Iranian American artist based in Burlington, Vermont, Parsia is drawn to the materials and the poetics within the process of image-reproduction. Her studio practice often incorporates film photography, xerography, and the use of archival images. She works within a limited color palette, a boundary that creates a unifying framework within which imagery can shift shape across processes.

Viscaya Wagner is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Burlington, Vermont. Integrating art forms into our everyday spaces and rituals, Viscaya creates spaces, objects, and artwork that reflect a long-term exploration of form and material. Her work exhibits warmth, tactility, and simplicity of form, emphasizing the dynamic force between discoverability and familiarity.

“My process is what has come to drive my personal art practice. Through my work I practice letting go of a preconceived outcome, necessary when working in interior and furniture design, and playing with shape as a meditative act. It’s difficult for me to separate from my expectations and let the materials present opportunities for me to

respond to. Although my sculptural pieces are very considered and require coordination and planning, I begin most works by sitting down and drawing forms in quick succession, loosening my thoughts and freeing my mind. I often start by drawing a grid of squares

and then filling them in before I have an opportunity to overthink what I’m putting on the page. This practice is an ongoing exercise in freeing myself from my own limitations.

I’m drawn to materials in their most elemental form and think of these sculptures as ‘material collages’ — exploring essential forms and the way materials interact with one another. These pieces are purely formal, and their expression is limited to the celebration of texture and naked materials.”

At the heart of Process & Presence is the dialogue between the artists’ distinct approaches to material translation. Parsia’s two-dimensional explorations and Wagner’s three-dimensional forms engage in a compelling conversation about the act of creation, the tension between precision and spontaneity, and the transformative power of minimalism and abstraction to communicate both intention and presence.