While virtual exhibitions are still more common than in-person shows…a few things are moving out the door and into the world for a spell. I can’t tell you how good it feels to have the work speak in the ways that were always intended.
The power of Communication
What do I mean by that? On some level, my work has always been about communication. The communication has been in direct and indirect storytelling over the years and occasionally in performance. My artist’s books, nearly all in collections now, were a hybrid form of storytelling combining words, images, and structure to guide open-ended stories. My works about nostalgia and power are very direct visual communications about feminist ideas. The digital embroidery work is, paradoxically, both more visual and more cerebral! It communicates ideas of pleasure, spirit, and rejuvenation through overwhelming color. It’s work you feel viscerally! The words to describe the experience come much later.
Clearly, if the work is about communication, then it needs someone to communicate with! Enter, stage left, the Silvermine Art Center, and the Rockford Museum.
Silvermine Art Center
The Silvermine Art Center, in New Canaan, CT, is opening a celebratory show on Sept 6. The 70th A-ONE is a national competition/exhibition highlighting the diversity of work that is currently being made by established and emerging artists, juried by independent curator Barbara O’Brien, celebrating 70 years of new and emerging artists from all over the United States. Barbara O’Brien is an independent curator and critic based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was executive director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri for five years beginning in 2012.after serving as chief curator and director of exhibitions since 2009. I am so pleased that she chose CHROMATIC WAVE 2 (show above) and CHROMATIC CURVE.
Meanwhile, next week, I am pleased to be shipping the award-winning work ChoicePoint to the 76TH ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN BIENNIAL
OCT 9, 2020–JAN 31, 2021. The work was juried in by Jack Dempsey of Corbett vs Dempsy Gallery
So glad to be “in communication” again.
