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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