SEWN SOWN
This work explores the necessity of balance, rhythm and vacillation between the assuaging of similarity at the center of things and the disturbance of the Other on the fringes of things. “Sewn” and “sown” are homophones but in addition to their sonic connection, they are also joined in antithesis, as if two parts of a whole; sewing, a representation of bringing things together (center), and sowing, a representation for scattering (fringe).
The paintings in the exhibition exemplify this gathering and scattering by oscillating between representation and abstraction, the suspension of disbelief that recognizable imagery provides and the abrupt materiality of the medium through apparent gesture, substrate, etc. The sculptures are mixtures of found object, fabric, plaster, feathers, wood, faux fur. They also utilize familiarity and disruption in their use of recognizable images, objects and forms, and the skewing of the quotidian toward unconventional forms.
Memory, poetry, myth, story, art history all inform the themes that run through the work as touchstones of apprehension while making associational leaps that allow gaps for the viewers memory, understanding and intuition.
ARTWORK IN THIS EXHIBITION WAS FUNDED BY A GRANT FROM THE FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL
*photos by Ruthie Mason
