Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center: Friday, 20 April 2012
2012 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXHIBITION
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 20, 6 8pm
Join us for the opening reception of the 2012 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition at Craft Alliance in the Grand Center. The exhibition, which runs through July 3, features the work of Samara Rosen (Fiber Resident), Eric Hoefer (Clay Resident), and Molly Douglass (Metals Resident). The exhibition is the culmination of their in-depth artistic investigation during their residency, resulting in the display of three innovative bodies of work.
Samara Rosen’s work explores the connection between time, memory, and the evolution of form and material. As Rosen explains, “Time shows itself on a material; it grows and strengthens even as it decays and weakens.” Repetitively cutting, stitching, and knotting, Rosen creates ethereal shapes made from natural fibers like onion skins and cicada eaten leaves. For Rosen, these elemental fibers give tangible shape to the intangible core of our existence; fiber is the common thread that holds us together and unites us on a molecular level.
The tactile quality of clay is highlighted in Eric Hoefer’s vessels by his use of thickly applied clay slip, grooved areas, and indented or pocked surfaces. Each piece is transformed through a complex system of assembling, deconstructing, and altering multiple wheel-thrown forms. After this intensive process, Hoefer arrives at a quirky and compelling “leaning and tilting” of forms that simultaneously reference architectural structures and the “implied contrapposto of the figure.”
Molly Douglass creates oversized shell-like forms with delicate inner metal skeletons sheathed in a sheer skin of dried animal intestines. “Pushing the boundaries of wearability and comfort,” these beautiful yet grotesque sculptures embody the concept of duality in many ways. Inner and outer, imaginary and real, disgust and fascination, corporeal and ephemeral, Douglass’ wearable pieces inevitably “elicit a duality of emotive responses.” She fashions these pieces as “extensions of the self that allow the viewer to experience a range of reactions from anxiety, desire, repression, release, and control to guilt.”
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 20, 6 8pm
Join us for the opening reception of the 2012 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition at Craft Alliance in the Grand Center. The exhibition, which runs through July 3, features the work of Samara Rosen (Fiber Resident), Eric Hoefer (Clay Resident), and Molly Douglass (Metals Resident). The exhibition is the culmination of their in-depth artistic investigation during their residency, resulting in the display of three innovative bodies of work.
Samara Rosen’s work explores the connection between time, memory, and the evolution of form and material. As Rosen explains, “Time shows itself on a material; it grows and strengthens even as it decays and weakens.” Repetitively cutting, stitching, and knotting, Rosen creates ethereal shapes made from natural fibers like onion skins and cicada eaten leaves. For Rosen, these elemental fibers give tangible shape to the intangible core of our existence; fiber is the common thread that holds us together and unites us on a molecular level.
The tactile quality of clay is highlighted in Eric Hoefer’s vessels by his use of thickly applied clay slip, grooved areas, and indented or pocked surfaces. Each piece is transformed through a complex system of assembling, deconstructing, and altering multiple wheel-thrown forms. After this intensive process, Hoefer arrives at a quirky and compelling “leaning and tilting” of forms that simultaneously reference architectural structures and the “implied contrapposto of the figure.”
Molly Douglass creates oversized shell-like forms with delicate inner metal skeletons sheathed in a sheer skin of dried animal intestines. “Pushing the boundaries of wearability and comfort,” these beautiful yet grotesque sculptures embody the concept of duality in many ways. Inner and outer, imaginary and real, disgust and fascination, corporeal and ephemeral, Douglass’ wearable pieces inevitably “elicit a duality of emotive responses.” She fashions these pieces as “extensions of the self that allow the viewer to experience a range of reactions from anxiety, desire, repression, release, and control to guilt.”
Craft Alliance in the Grand Center
501 N. Grand
Saint Louis, MO 63103
501 N. Grand
Saint Louis, MO 63103
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