HEAVY HANDS
HEAVY LANDS
April 5 - May 31, 2025
Michael Scogin
Liz Markum
Join us April 5th for Tin District Open Studios (11 am-4 pm)!
“Heavy Hands, Heavy Lands” investigates the shifting boundaries between the manmade and the “natural.”
Heavy are the hands that move the land. Heavy is the land that forms the man. Using materials like glass, metal, wood, and stone, the exhibit drifts through themes of introspection, ferality, and transformation.
Liz Markum is a queer artist based in Texas whose work reexamines the remnants of the local natural world through a lens of curiosity and reverence. Using materials and processes such as cast glass, cast metal, print media, woodworking, and metalworking, they create sculptures that serve as reliquaries of ecology. They received their BFA in Sculpture at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2021 and their MFA in Sculpture at the University of North Texas in May of 2024. They are currently an art educator and bronze art foundry assistant.
Michael Scogin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas. His work often focuses on the overlooked, hidden, or gradual. Michael made his way into construction, building off-shore oil drilling rigs and learning how to weld while assisting a Shipfitter from Kerala, India. Woodworking came after inheriting tools from the person who taught him the basics. The time spent in each craft created an appreciation and admiration of the skill required to craft an object and the vast number of people whose shared methods, tools, and ingenuity allow us to create such works. He received a BFA (2019) and an MFA (2024) at the University of Texas at Arlington, focusing on sculpture and intermedia. He is currently an art educator and bronze art foundry assistant.
516 Fabrication Street, Dallas, Texas
Open Saturdays 12 – 5 PM or by appointment
Parking is available in the lot at 2609 Bataan Street.
