February 16 - March 24, 2018
61 Washington Park, Newton, MA 02460 Opening reception: Friday, February 16th from 6-8pm Panel Discussion: Saturday, March 3 from 2-4pm From birth until death we’re surrounded by cloth used for swaddling, shrouding, warmth, sheathing, shelter, and ritual. Cloth is embedded with practices and customs traversing centuries of humanity. It has played a role in the shaping of history, the marking of those in power, enforcement of class structures, and as a means of establishing identity. Cloth acts as a barrier between the world and our bodies. It is used to help construct narratives about ourselves and to infer narratives upon others. Despite this vast integration into every aspect of life, we have little conscious connection to it; we are not taught the history of cloth along with the history of war. Binding cloth together, allowing for its pliability of function and meaning, is thread. Thread is the basis for the language of cloth. It functionally and conceptually creates a continuous line reaching back to our origins and drawing us forward, bringing us in and out, over, under, and through, loop into loop. Using the thread, making the cloth, constructing form and meaning, is the stitch. To stitch something is to piece it together, to create closure, to establish connections between one and another. To stitch is to puncture a surface. To stitch is to create a line. To stitch is to move in and out. The stitch is action and remnant of action, a motion and a process of the hand, an epistemology of making. The artists included in STITCH create work that relies on the powerful language of technique and material to convey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms, paradigms that are based in the ever-fluid language of cloth. Through the work of these artists we can viscerally feel that a stitch is never only about surface. Join us throughout the exhibition for artist demonstrations and participatory performances by the artists of STITCH. A full list of events and programming can be found HERE. Image: Andrew Mowbray, Falsetto, tyvek and thread, 81"x73", 2015
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September 5 - November 17, 2017
8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439 Opening reception: Friday, September 22 | 4:30-7pm I am excited to be contributing a hand-made basketball net to the show Diamonds, Rings & Courts at St. Johns University's Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery as part of the New Craft Artists In Action collective. This exhibition brings together the work of eleven contemporary artists and poets who explore the pervasive language, symbolism, and mythology of sports. This exhibition celebrates St. John’s sports history, through its Red Storm basketball team, and its strong Sports Management program. The art work will be displayed in multiple venues creating an event that will be shared campus wide and which will receive strong community participation. Visit the gallery website for more information and St. John's University website for additional programing. Gallery Hours Monday-Friday: 10am-5pm Third Saturday of each month: 11am-4pm Image: Box Score: An Autobiography, by Kevin Varrone, front & back covers. Design by Christophe Cassimassima, Furniture Press Books. |
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