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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Patricia Boinest Potter
Patricia Boinest Potter was born in Charleston, SC in 1940 and currently resides in Anniston, Alabama. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Atlanta College of Art, now Savannah College of Art and Design, and received a Master’s of European Studies in Architecture, MESA, a nomadic program: London, Paris and Helsinki. Her father was an Architect, as is her daughter, so the built environment has been a through-line in the artist’s life. Potter has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Auburn University, Iowa State University, and Jacksonville State University. Her works have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including Paris, France; New York City, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Newton, Massachusetts; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Jesse W. Akers
Alabama native Jesse W. Akers, b. 1995, has been collaborating with Pat Potter since 2018. Not only does the autodidact artist assist in manifesting her vision physically, he has grown into the role of full collaborator and project manager. Through his life’s work, Jesse has been influenced by nature, architecture, and fashion exploring themes of existence. He is a multi-media artist that has been guided under the tutelage of Potter and other artists at artXarchitecture studio. He refers to what they do together as a shared intellectual endeavor. “Though technical and strategical experiments have led to new skill sets, new methods of seeing have been the most profound and seem to be a consistent vision for the studio and imaginatively persistent to the process.”
Artist Statement
Patricia Boinest Potter
There are many truths.
We each write our own
My first truth was my father
My first lesson was trust.
Our house was always full
Of Love and laughter
Love of each other
Love of movement
Love of acrobatics
Love of beauty
Love of Art
Love of Architecture
Love of Animals
Love of Trees
Love of the World
Love of God.
Our house was always full
Of friends, family, and workers
from my father’s architecture firm behind the house
Whoever happened to be there at lunchtime
Came to the big house for lunch.
Clients, Carpenters, Contractors, Draughtsmen,
My sister and I.
My mother’s twin sisters
Lived with us
Their boyfriends were around.
Adding to the fullness
Of love and laughter
My Father died when I was twelve.
One of my many truths
Is that Death is a part of Life.
There is a conscious energy that never dies
An energy imprinted by a Life
That passes into a multi-dimensional space
Layered with ours so that our beloved are always right
here with us.
I learned early
There are Many ways
Of becoming…
Of being..
Of disappearing.
I learned later There are many layered dimensions
Of truth
Of reality
Of life.
Of Actual and Virtual.
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Jesse W. Akers
A lot of energy stirs in the work I do and am part of. For me, thinking and imagination have always been a mental scale with push and pull of: activity and rest, instinct and intuition, curiosity and doubt, knowledge and belief. Beginning a project about time began with ideas about how we view and feel time—something that can be defined so many ways but is also undefinable. In Patterns in Time, you are looking at more than the product of ideas; you are looking at an intricate process within and before the image. Symbols have always been a way for me to attach understanding or a point of view to mystery and significance. As I developed in the studio along with the work, feeling time's grip move from a very formative early 20s age to late 20s, symbols took on new meaning in amplifying patterns to invoke their own symbolism letting a collection of materials tell the story. I enjoy working with symbols in representative and nonrepresentative ways. I like to think of art as a preservation of natural energy that occurs in a transfer from the artist into the work. I create art to clear a space in my mind: stimuli resulting from stimuli. Not to force an idea, but to make a window for different perspectives drawing you into a glimpse of exploration.