cherrymilk: Kirby Miles
Post Hoc: Carrie Fonder
Opening: Saturday, June 14, 6–9 PM
Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 6, 2025
Good Children Gallery is excited to present two new exhibitions: cherrymilk by Kirby Miles and Post Hoc by Carrie Fonder. Join us for the opening receptions Saturday, June 14 from 6–9 PM.
cherrymilk: Kirby Miles
“This is a devotional practice made of mess. Queer, maximal, and holy in its disobedience. Each piece is a love spell for the unbeautiful, a relic of femme power too loud to be polite. Objects of worship, yes, but for saints who bleed rhinestones and oracles who speak in blush and bondage.
They refuse restraint. They want to be seen in their too-muchness, to glitter until your gaze softens in surrender. Devotional sites for the queer, the femme, the heretical. Each one hums with contradiction: altar and wound, doll and witch, saint and slut.
No clean lines. Only eruption. Paint spills like perfume. Crystals scatter like broken rosaries. Beauty is not passive, it bites.”
—excerpted from Miles’ Exhibition Statement
Kirby Miles is a queer painter and writer who conjures a vibrant, otherworldly realm where glitter and poetry intertwine. Her imaginative artworks are often small, tactile assemblages shimmering with candy-colored glitter, faux fur, and unexpected textures. Miles received her BFA from the University of Tennessee in 2017 and her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2019). She lives and works in Chattanooga, TN, where her studio is equal parts sanctuary, spellcraft, and storybook.
Post Hoc: Carrie Fonder
In Post Hoc, Fonder extends her 2024 exhibition Non Sequitur, commissioned by the Alabama Contemporary Art Center. Both exhibitions reflect on the cyclical nature of ideas, life, and sculptural materials, reimagined through multi-channel video installations.
Fonder uses humor as a tool of investigation, probing issues of power and complicity through humor and kitsch. In Post Hoc, sculptures gain a second life as digital performers, animated in video sequences that extend their presence and shift their meaning. She invites viewers to consider the mechanics—literal and metaphorical—behind what we see, how it’s made, and how meaning is assembled.
Carrie Fonder is a sculptor, installation, and video artist who holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a Fulbright Nehru Award recipient. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at the University of West Florida and a longtime member of Good Children Gallery. Learn more at www.carriefonder.com.