Molly Roth Scranton: Thing Poems

May 17 - June 21, 2025

Opening Reception

Saturday, May 17, 2025 6 - 9pm

 "If I were to ask you to stay, I would embarrass myself. I want to, I always want to, but it means that I need you, that I need something, and I want to be something that needs nothing. I want to be solid, unflappable, impermeable, able to withstand all forms of loss with a stoic grace because that is the ideal. But I can't. I want to beg and sob and pound my fists and refuse and make sounds like an animal. But I can't do that either. I know about the inevitability of transience. I want to honor it quietly, with effort, while I shake on the inside with everyone else."

Molly Roth Scranton makes assemblage works from found, gifted, crafted, and formed materials from the world. She has been called a "promiscuous artist", making weavings, paintings, ceramics, sculptures, language-based, and time-based works. Her interests lie in anxiety, collaboration, death, escapism, labor, longing, magic, and poetry. 
She has exhibited and performed her work in numerous international and national venues, including Babelkunst in Trondheim, Norway, The Finnish Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki, Finland, The Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Harvestworks in New York, Martin and Brockett in Los Angeles, and Constellation, Free Range, Elastic Arts, The Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary, Roman Susan, and 6018 North in Chicago.