Computing Machines & Weaving Technology

What is considered women’s work? Do we confine our imagination to the home, to the nostalgic housewife stooped over a stove? Or do we conjure the harried career woman, rocking her baby back to sleep just three hours before she heads to the office? In Ahree Lee’s exhibition Pattern : Code, on view at Women’s Center for Creative Work, Lee acknowledges the truths buried in the stereotypes, but also folds in two other historically feminized labor practices: weaving and, more unexpectedly, computer programming.