Pony Gate - Amelia Briggs
Photos: Meredith Mashburn Photography
Driven by questions regarding links between identity and childhood, visual artist Amelia Briggs transformed the windows of the Famous Hardware Store into an uncanny dream of lush embodiments.
A theater, teeming with exuberant textures and bold playful hues that waver between odious and cozy, subverts notions of value and humor while generating an abstract sense of longing.
Pony Gate acts as a series of dioramas, where each window operates as a model, animating the indescribable nature of our formative selves and our personal mythologies. The colors, shapes, and lines associated with the toys, games, and objects from the artist’s youth get broken down and pieced together to form bloated objects that appear to be inflated.
Acting as relics, each artwork is personal and universal, inviting us to question each of our individual experiences, bringing us closer to our own personal identities that have been shaped over time.
Artist Bio
Amelia Briggs is a multidisciplinary artist working between fiber, painting, and installation. Driven by questions regarding the link between childhood and identity, Briggs constructs objects and images that operate as whimsical characters from an unknown animated universe.
The Famous Hardware Store
Located at 113 West Emma Avenue, Springdale, Arkansas, Famous Hardware art installations began in 2021 as a way to make art accessible to the Springdale community and create new experiences for people visiting the city’s downtown. Each installation is visible from the sidewalk in front of the Famous Hardware building and are explained in English, Spanish and Marshallese.
Famous Hardware Store curations were a partnership between CACHE and the Downtown Springdale Alliance, with funding support from the Tyson Family Foundation.
Video: Travis Kersh
