Diane Silver presents her latest work in her new exhibition, Horizontal Shift. Beginning with large sheets of linen, she dyes the material with indigo, creating imperfect, organic flows of blue against areas of untouched natural tones of the fabric. These expansive textiles float on the wall and are knotted and twisted with silver leaf, steel wool, or other fibrous materials sewn into the surfaces. The work is entirely abstract, but horizontal bands of pulled and stitched cloth might suggest the ocean, while the patchy undyed areas appear as clouds and sky. As Silver states, her “repetitive motifs and forms echo the seriality of Minimalism” but, like Hesse, her use of more fluid contours diverge from the hard-edged approach of that genre, aligning more with feminist contexts.
Silver’s exhibition shares our large gallery space with series of small scale, white on white paintings by Brooklyn based artist, Dominic Terlizzi. In this body of work, Terlizzi is a storyteller, baker, gleaner, mold maker, draftsman, tile setter and mosaic artist. Acting as scavenger, the artist titled this series Beachcomber, collecting not only shells, but other simple sundries found around the house such as cookies, crackers, leaves, and coins. He then creates small molds of these objects, casts them in white paint, and assembles these little paint sculptures into collaged assemblages of textural odysseys.
Taylor Kibby’s new exhibition, With As Much Sweetness As I Can Decently Manage, is her first solo show with the gallery. In her recent work, she uses traditional western symbols of girlhood such as bows, ribbons and braids that are strung with brilliant blue beads. She states that this work is a navigation of the body and “the expectations and perceived roles that femmes take on in the world.” Her work always highlights labor, process and repetitive acts, often leaving irregularities which, as Kibby concludes, allow her to revel in the beauty of a vision not wholly her own.
Artists Talk:
Saturday, January 20, 11am
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10:00am - 5:30pm
Saturday, 11:00am - 5:30pm