Craft Alliance in the Loop: Friday, 14 January 2011

Kay Khan, "CORE"

Multiple Personalities
6 – 8 p.m., Friday, January 14

The exhibition, which runs through March 6, features multiple works from Pattie Chalmers, Cynthia Consentino, Andrea Donnelly, Kay Khan, Nancy Kubale, Esther Shimazu, Loring Taoka.

With clay as their medium, Consentino, Chalmers, Shimazu, and Kubale create figures that evoke emotion and self-reflection. Esther Shimazu creates vivid imagery of voluptuous women, unconcerned about clothing and hairdo, comfortable in their own skins. Each sculpture is assembled body part by body part, even the individual toenails and teeth are constructed with detail in mind.

Andrea Donnelly’s graphic and intricate work is an in-depth exploration of a wide range of human emotions. Through the weaving of painted fibers, Donnelly projects feelings of vulnerability, fear, desire, joy, and sadness that can either connect us to others or isolate us from them. The mental landscape of fabric she creates draws the viewer close, to feel connected.
Taking an altogether different approach to the theme, Loring Taoka uses his childhood experiences as inspiration for his latest work. Taoka’s complex, intimate metal sculptures reflect his thoughts and feelings toward his upbringing as a Japanese-American in rural New England.
Through mixed media, Kay Khan connects fragments of stitched figures and text to create elaborate vessels that instill personal reflection. The immense detail of every stitch within the structure forms a labyrinth of meaning and connection.

Opening concurrently in the Charak Gallery is an exhibition featuring Deborrah Daher and Janice Ho, who use traditional metalsmithing techniques to create exquisite hand-made jewelry. Their work is fashionable, highly detailed, and sophisticated.

Craft Alliance in the Delmar Loop
6640 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63130
www.craftalliance.org
(314) 725-1177