There’s a use for everything

“What Remains’’ (mixed media)., by Massachusetts-based artist and fencing coach Elif Soyer, in her show “Making Meaning,’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, Nov. 29-Dec. 30.

"Everyday takes figuring out all over again how to f***ing live.”
(Calamity Jane/Deadwood)

The gallery says:

“‘Making Meaning’’’ is a conglomeration of old and new ideas and experiments, culminating in fabrications, layered with both time and materials. For Soyer, the Calamity Jane quote from her favorite character and all time favorite show is true for most of us. Soyer ponders this existential question often, especially in the studio where, for her, making art is making meaning out of the mundane, through work and invested time. Oscillating between the interior landscape of the human body and the exterior landscape of her immediate environment,  through collecting, layering or other seemingly obsessive processes, Soyer’s work has always had a very strong tie to time.’’

The art under your wheels

From Elif Soyer's show "Membrane,'' at Kingston Gallery, Boston, through Feb. 26.

The gallery says that Ms. Soyer “experiments with a range of materials, many gathered from nature, to bring into focus images seen on a daily basis that attract her eye with texture and pattern. In this body of work the artist plays with filtering images through a membrane of time and material, bringing to the foreground three-dimensional objects that her brain initially identified as background.’’