Table Read
Table Read
Table Read, 2025
For Table Read, Sophia Cleary presents a series of charcoal and graphite drawings of two de-commissioned medical exam tables that she sourced from UCSD Surplus Sales. Drawn on-site in a black-box performance space at UCSD, Cleary employs the protocols of a figure drawing class as her script, but instead of a nude model and a circle of artists rendering the central figure, all roles are re-cast in this counter-examination of absence, remnant, and perversion.
Performance Practice
Performance Practice
Performance Practice, 2024, series of graphite drawings and mixed media sculpture, University of California San Diego, CA
The drawings are renderings of sites where performances take place. These objects function as stages — the body activates these objects and additional bodies are always implied — whether audience, examiner, or captor. By juxtaposing imagery that invokes the medical, carceral, or athletic, a common theatrical language emerges. What kinds of disciplinary regimes do we volunteer ourselves for — for the sake of betterment, order, and “progress”?
