PULSE

Curated by Ruri Yi

April 4 - May 2

MONO PRACTICE Baltimore is pleased to present PULSE, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Elliot Doughtie and Danielle Mysliwiec. The exhibition explores how material, form, and perception generate meaning in contemporary art.

Danielle Mysliwiec’s paintings merge the structured discipline of weaving with the fluidity of oil paint, creating tactile, visual, and associative abstractions. By extruding individual “threads” of paint, she builds physical surfaces whose dimensionality is enhanced by linen armatures and elements. These surfaces and forms combine to produce unfolding visual “events” that shift with the changing light of the day and the position of the viewer in space. Openings, closures, planes, and textures are alternately hidden and revealed.

Elliot Doughtie’s Fangs series, begun in 2025, transforms plastic vampire fangs through experiments with scale and diverse materials. By stretching and abstracting the form, the works explore vampires as social, sexual, and cultural deviants while examining fear, desire, and the act of ingestion within a queer context. Constructed from wood, foam, resin, and reinforced fiberglass, each sculpture engages viewers through its physical presence, creating tension and a sense of the uncanny.

Together, these works reveal how time, emotion, and imagination emerge through the transformation of materials and objects. This modification of physicality and play expresses an unpretentious pulsation. PULSE invites viewers to encounter these reinterpreted forms directly, allowing meaning and emotion to emerge through a sensory and embodied experience.

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Elliot Doughtie works across drawing, sculpture, and installation, exploring intimate relationships between everyday objects and the awkward realities of the human body. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including L’Œil du Poisson (Quebec City, QC), Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX), LangerOverDickie (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (Arlington, VA), and Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), among others. Doughtie holds a BA from Tulane University and an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA. He is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

Danielle Mysliwiec holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Hunter College. She has presented solo exhibitions at Brintz+County (Palm Beach, FL), Novella Gallery (New York, NY), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), and Kent State University (Kent, OH). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions and art fairs at Andrea Festa Fine Art (Rome), Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Asya Geisberg Gallery (NY), Mixed Greens Gallery (NY), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and The Peale Museum (Baltimore, MD). Mysliwiec’s paintings have been featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings, and The Washington Post. She has participated in residencies at the Tides Institute & Museum, Long Meadow Art Residency, Surf Point Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center, and has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. She is an Associate Professor of Art at American University.

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