PRESS RELEASE: April 3–22, 2026
The Boedeker / The Cedars Union
1219 S Ervay St, Dallas, TX 75215
Accessibility: The Boedeker is accessible only by stairs.
The Cedars Union and Easyside are pleased to announce Ice Cream Machine, a solo exhibition by New York–based artist Hannah Rotwein. For some fifty-odd years, every room across two floors and a mezzanine supported the production of ice cream in the Boedeker Building. Ice Cream Machine draws upon this legacy as well as the building’s later use as an office furniture supplier and warehouse.
In the former second-floor mixing room, a sculpture stretches across pink tile. Metal, wood, plastic, and cardboard objects stack, teeter, and counterweigh, holding each other in deft balance. The objects—fragments largely found on the streets of New York and Richmond—connect and converge. Their materiality, heft, flexibility, and scale dictate what is possible; colors, orientations, and patterns recur. As fragments multiply, so do the possibilities—and the stakes. Move one object, and the system breaks: no longer a machine, but a collection of disparate parts.
Through a sculptural practice rooted in material experimentation, Hannah Rotwein (b. 1995, St. Louis, MO) creates objects that challenge hierarchies of value and propose new possibilities for interrelation. Working with both found fragments and readily available materials, she explores relationships between objects based on their functional and aesthetic properties rather than prescribed uses.
Rotwein has held residencies at Cel del Nord (Oristà, Spain), The Cedars Union (Dallas), and Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Dallas) and was a 2018 participant in Land Arts of the American West. She has exhibited domestically and internationally, including at the Visual Arts Center (Austin), the Museum of Texas Tech University (Lubbock), the Material Room (Richmond), the Institute for Contemporary Art (Richmond), Bronx River Art Center (New York), Coco Hunday (Tampa), and Espacio Cabeza (Guadalajara). She earned an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Studio Art and BA in History and Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin. She lives and works in New York.
Opening reception:
April 3, 6:00–9:00 PM
Closing reception:
April 19, 12:00–5:00 PM
Open hours:
April 3–16: by appointment (email info@easyside.org)
April 17: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
April 18: 12:00–5:00 PM