It's Complicated / Summer 2024 Exhibition Catalog / I Like Your Work

Life Lines F1 (2024, thread on cotton, 12 x 12 inches) joins forces with some incredible artworks across the pages of It’s Complicated, I Like Your Work’s Summer 2024 Exhibition Catalog beautifully and thoughtfully curated by Erika Diamond. Life Lines is a new series begun this year which records the accumulating wrinkles along the surface of my skin.

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It’s Complicated
Curated by Erika Diamond
Summer 2024

from the Curator Statement: "Our media feeds and calendars can feel overwhelming these days. We are inundated with news – sometimes joyful and sometimes devastating. Acknowledging the abundance and complexities of today’s world, It’s complicated highlights work in which the technique or subject matter is full of details and complications. Essentially, I found myself drawn to works with “a lot going on” whose intricacies revealed a lot more beneath the surface texture. These works cover thorny topics like relationships, identity, sovereignty, and memory. Marked by excess and reiteration, they examine the perpetual friction between past and future, good and evil, love and loss…

…The female figure appears throughout this catalog, underscoring the complexities of gender, identity, and bodily autonomy. Textile patterns are employed with feminist undertones by artists like Heather Jones. The motifs that surround Shabnam Jannesari’s figures reflect her Iranian heritage and the resilience of women within patriarchal spaces. Crochet patterns are a recurring theme in Linda Behar’s work, a juxtaposition of traditionally female labor paired with female bodies that clap back at the male gaze with their assertive and robust stance. The importance of lifting each other up is also felt in Sherri Wolfgang’s triumphantly rendered portraits of “sheros”. Camilla Fallon combines parallel lines of light streaming through window blinds with the figurative study of a highly contested part of the female body – the belly or womb. Jess Blaustein references life lines on our skin and the physical evidence of age through repetitive stitched marks on fabric. The body is an embellished battleground.”

Sasha Baskin / Jess Blaustein / Kate Clements / Rachel David / Marcus Dunn / Camilla Fallon / Cianne Fragione / Marjorie Hellman / Hannah Hill / Lily Hollinden / Shabnam Jannesari / Heather Jones / Lexie Loader / Judith Mullen / Meirav Ong / Ellen Ramsey / Joy Ray / Nicole Ryan / Blake Sanders / Barbara Schreiber / Sarah Spillers / Jacquelyn Strycker / THECOLORG / Sally Veach / Michael Velliquette / Jon Verney / Brant Weiland / Sherri WOLFGANG / Rachael Zur

Curated by Erika Diamond

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Artists Book Month II: The World is a Scandal / BravinLee programs

Fifteen Minute Lines with Lost Time is included in BravinLee programs Artists’ Book Month II: The World is a Scandal, June 6–June 28, 2024, 526 W26th St #211 nyc.

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BravinLee is pleased to present Artists' Book Month II: The World is a Scandal. BravinLee has been exhibiting artists' books forever.

The artist book reveals artists at their most unguarded, and authentically personal. The artist shares an intimate sequence of moments. As inauthenticity prospers and pan-Fascism rears its head and blurs the line between reality and nightmare, the simple honest tangibilty of the artist book is a refuge.

Anahita Bagheri / Kim Beck / Pamela Bell / Hans Bellmer / Jess Blaustein / Dina Brodsky / Andrea Burgay / George Cochrane / Rima Day / Peter Dudek / Dahlia Elsayed / Paul Éluard & Man Ray / Angelo Filomeno / Douglas Florian / Heide Hatry / Jindřich Heisler / Elana Herzog / Georges Hugnet / Sun Young Kang / Jonathan Lasker / Paul Maloney / JJ Manford / Fabian Marcaccio / Donna Moylan / Charlie Ritchie / Alexis Rockman / Alyse Rosner / Nicolas V. Sanchez / Derek Stroup / Scott Teplin / Moï Ver / Martin Wilner / Eric Wolf / Unica Zürn

To Know the Earth Through Roots / Field Projects

Sleep Settings has been selected for the online companion to Field Project’s most recent exhibition, To Know the Earth Through Roots, curated by Danielle Johnson, December 7, 2023–January 6, 2024.

To Know the Earth Through Roots looks at contemporary practices engaged with questions of materiality and its relationship to knowing, meaning, and memory. It investigates the ways objects and materials can be entangled with, recall, or resurrect a geographical place, an interior space, or a particular time but also how the filter of memory can render the quotidian unfamiliar. The artists in this exhibition are attuned to objects and materials that within them contain a remembrance or impression of a past while also signaling a precarious future, marked by either eventual breakdown or uneasy interminable stasis. This is to say, these objects, rescued from waste streams or selected for specific evocative ends, exist in time. Memory, as a process that also suggests the passage of time, finds its form through these images, objects, and materials that have taken root in the mind.  Featuring: Janine Brown, Kailey Brown, Clare Burson, Johanna Cordasco, Pat Dunham, Clare Gemima, Dina Khorchid, Kelly O'Brien, Yixuan Wu, Alice Zerini-Le Reste

>Online Exhibition Curated by Danielle Johnson, Will Chan, Lisa Schilling, Jacob Rhodes and Angelica Aranda / Featuring: Eleanor Aldrich, Cassie Arnold, Elizabeth Behl, Jess Blaustein, Alex Branch, Charles Browning, Justin Carney, Young Cho, Ann Cofta, Laura De Valencia, NAZLI EFE, Souleye Fall, James Parker Foley, Erin Fostel, Maryam Gohar, Yen Ha, Eben Haines, Quinn Hunter, Kristina Knipe, Anzhelika Lebedeva, Beth Livensperger, Yuki Maruyama, Chancellor Page, Carolina Trinker, Maggie Wong

KinoSaito Annual

In such wonderful company at KinoSaito’s year-end exhibition celebration, KinoSaito Annual: Community Art Benefit, 15–17 December, just up the Hudson in Verplanck, NY. “KinoSaito is excited with this 3-day exhibition. We aim to highlight the wealth of talent and skill in artistic ability that can be found in our local community in all stages of their careers from the Hudson Valley and beyond.”

Pictured: Recover, 2019, Cut cotton on canvas, 11 x 11 inches

BUILT ON THE SITE of … / Installation

Feeling grateful that I live in a town crazy enough to invite me do a little takeover of the Municipal Building. Huge thanks to the Village Arts Commission of Hastings-on-Hudson for their support and to all the wonderful folks in Village Hall who let me hang out there with my coax cable in the wee hours of the night.

BUILT ON THE SITE of...

Art Installation
Village Hall, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
April 16 – June 8, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday April 21, 6-9pm

At the street-level entrance to Hastings-on-Hudson’s Municipal Building, a Museum in the Streets sign explains to visitors and passersby that the Village Hall is “BUILT ON THE SITE of the home of Joseph Treanor, owner of a waterfront bluestone yard.” Teased from the signage, BUILT ON THE SITE of... opens up stories of the Municipal Building’s past lives, unearthing from its surfaces pages upon pages of ghostly fragments and remains. Warped paper forms fill walls, frayed communication cables travel here and there, and threaded maps spread elsewhere. These and other site-specific interventions meander through the building, where physical and administrative architectures operate not as passive backdrops for art hanging, but as active portals for imagining other times and other places.

Table Settings / The Fine Art Textiles Award

Insanely honoured to learn that Table Settings has been shortlisted for The Fine Arts Textile Award 2022 alongside the incredible work of 13 other artists. The shortlisted artworks will be exhibited at The Festival of Quilts this August and The Knitting and Stitching Show in London and Harrogate October and November.

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Table Settings, 2020-21
Four weeks of dinner tracings with pencil and thread on recycled household linens
68 x 48 inches

Table Settings gives form to the accumulated tracings of plates, utensils and all the other objects that make up the shifting terrain of a single dinner table. It quietly grapples with patterns of everyday life made more apparent and more tangible over the course of countless days and nights. The patterns are belabored and bewildering—on one side a record of relations and movement, and on the other a tactile universe emerging from lines that are normally wiped away.

Greyshift / Miniartextil 2019

Greyshift, made with STUDIOOSS, is on view at the 2019 edition of Miniartextil in Como, Italy, September 28—November 17, 2019.

Greyshift
Pleated silk and threads machine stitched on die-cut and painted paper
20cm x 3cm expandable to 35cm
Made in Singapore
2019

Greyshift transforms paper off-cuts from our pop-up book, The Dining Room, into a moveable viewing device that expands from two to three dimensions across the black and white spectrum—from the flat, negative spaces of single planes of paper into a passageway defined by the curious betweens.

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Undercover at Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII

Undercover will be part of Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII, FAVA’s 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts, from May 12 - July 29, 2018. From AQM: The Artist as Quiltmaker is the second-longest-running  art quilt exhibition in the world. This year's exhibition will feature the work of 32 artists from across North America, selected from a pool of over 300 entries. FAVA deliberately chooses not to define “quilt,” thereby encouraging both established and emerging artists to submit innovative artwork, pushing boundaries and challenging expectations, whether they use traditional or non-traditional techniques or materials. JUROR for 2018: Emily Zilber; The Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Remembering 1209 at Craft Forms 2017

Remembering 1209 is on view at Craft Forms 2017, the International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts, from December 8, 2017 through January 27, 2018

Remembering 1209
Old Rayon/Cotton Curtain panel, Discarded Men’s White Cotton Shirt, Organic Cotton, Cotton Batting, Thread
GPS Track Recordings, Pencil Drawing, Machine Piecing, Free-motion Stitching
37 x 24
Made in Singapore
2015

One map, two ways

B-PLOT collaboration in process … Here, Little India, Singapore. One map, two ways.

studio news

I'm so honoured to be the 2016 Founder’s Award recipient for Remembering 1209 in Artist as Quiltmaker: the 17th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts, now through July 31, 2016, in Oberlin, OH, USA. The show is juried by Mark Newport, head of the Fibers Department at Cranbrook and the maker of these sweatermen costumes, embroidered record covers, and other amazings.

Remembering 1209
Old Rayon/Cotton Curtain panel, Discarded Men’s White Cotton Shirt, Organic Cotton, Cotton Batting, Thread
GPS Track Recordings, Pencil Drawing, Machine Piecing, Free-motion Stitching
37 x 24
Made in Singapore
2015