Exhibitions

FROM THE CENTER: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops

“It is an ongoing and noble process of liberation to free our true natures.” –Marcia Weese (curator)

This group show binds together four women: all mid-career artists, all witnesses to the everyday. All have been wives, all are mothers, and all continue to weave life’s fabric in the studio. The warp and weft are palpable in these works. The domestic chores, the subjugation, the transcendence, the perseverance, the folding of sheets, the mending of nets, the flapping of wings.

Each artist works in multiple materials– sculpture, collage, wax, assemblage, drawing, etching, painting, printing. Each employs a serious and whimsical approach to art making. Each bears a message; to rise continuously with the rigor and honor of being female, of being human.

ABOVE
BELOW

This body of work speaks to the mystery of what lies below and the majesty of what floats above. And we are in the midst. Are we conduits or interlopers?

Between the stillness of Mt Fuji amidst her ever-changing states, the deep throated whale songs that resound across hundreds of ocean miles, the intricate network of trees in a forest talking through their roots, and dragonfly maps showing us the path from dark to light—these phenomena point to the intelligence of the natural world. As I dive deeply into the dark feminine, relying on my intuition, I expose the dualities of above and below.