GIFTS by Rebecca Watson Horn and Vasco Futscher

For Immediate Release

Figura Avulsa is pleased to present Gifts, an exhibition that brings together paintings by Rebecca Watson Horn and ceramic objects by Vasco Futscher, opening Saturday May 18 from 5—8pm.

On her way to Paris, Rebecca is travelling with some paintings that fit her suitcase, to be gifted to her friends and collaborators later on. Her paintings construct and lay out illegible words — hidden in plain sight these words as images aren’t exactly given. Vasco exhibits an industrial brick from a series that he re-fired, deepening its color and shrinking it slightly — another gift, on loan here, from the collection of João Simões. Vasco’s brick variations (and he’s showing a couple of others) appear to be tokens that run a foundational thread throughout his oeuvre.

Rebecca Watson Horn (b. 1981, Boston) received a BFA from The Cooper Union, NY (2007), an MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2015), and attended The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles (2018).
Forthcoming solo show The Secret Life of Vowels will open at Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2024); Horn presented a collaborative exhibition of her series titled Semaphores with a performance by Andros Zins-Browne and costumes by Victoria Bartlett at Canepa Selling, Los Angeles (2023). Past solo exhibitions include Sigils, Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); letters as such, Deli Gallery, New York (2021); White Columns, New York (2017) and Rub It In, Soloway, Brooklyn (2011).
She has participated in several group exhibitions including A Study in Form (Chapter Two), James Fuentes, NY (2024); The Practice of Everyday Life, Derosia, NY; Forland, Catskill, NY; Pure Joy, 1969, New York (2022); Personal Effects, Rumpelstiltskin, Brooklyn (2020); spaceless, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); ZEBRA, LaKAJE, Brooklyn; Flower Sermon, Yui Gallery, New York (2018); Objectified, Bromfield Gallery, Boston (2017); X, Lyles & King, New York (2016); Canaries, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, and at Hotel Pupik, Scheifling, Austria (2015). Horn lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Vasco Futscher's (b. 1987, Lisbon) practice, and specifically the ceramic body of work that he’s been developing since 2010, is characterized by a synthetic approach to various traditions not commonly found mixed together. By combining elements of architecture, pictorial referents that span art history or the decorative arts, as well as a deep interest in "common" elements that make up our world, he seeks to offer hybrid objects that defy categorization and instead aim to slip through these divisions. Recent solo exhibitions include Rien ne va Plus (with Jorge Nesbitt), Brotéria, Lisbon (2024); Anjo Solidão (with Gabriel Ferrandini), BoCA Biennial, Lisbon (2021); Contrato Promessa, Kubik, Porto (2021); String Theories, A Montanha, Lisbon (2020); Masks, Tablets and Loose Birds, Annex 14, CH (2019); Cousins Germains, Institut Camões, Luxembourg (2018). A selection of his group shows include The exhibition is ongoing and open to permutation, Cabo Ruivo, Lisbon (2022); Treffen in Guincho / Ernesto de Sousa, Galeria Av. da Índia, Lisbon (2021); Triângulo, Brotéria, Lisbon (2021); Portugal, Portugueses, Museu Afro-Brasil, São Paulo (2016); Prémio Fundação EDP Novos Artistas, MAAT, Lisbon (2015). Futscher graduated from Ar.Co — Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in 2013. He has been teaching ceramics since 2014, and is currently the head of Ar.Co’s ceramics department.