EVENTS
SEEKING BALANCE
Seeking Balance
October 25th- November 26th
OPENING RECEPTION
OCTOBER 25th 6-9 pm
816-715-4838
Hours at the crossroad location for this Fall are:Wednesday-Saturday 3-9 pm
Debra Smith’s new works contained in the exhibition Seeking Balance are the result of both an intuitive process, formed from years of working with historic textiles, and a mindful practice. Each work is an open expression, constructed in an extraordinary way - with hours of stitching, embedding layer upon layer of material. For Smith, her art is an articulation of her life. It is this dance to distract and effort to breathe where eventually everything connects and the destination is a place of beauty and clarification.
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MEMORY TRACE
Memory Trace at Studios Inc.
Opening Reception Friday, November 10th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
Gallery Talk Saturday, November 11th from 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Gallery Hours
Tues - Friday 10:00 - 12:00 PM & 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Saturday 12:00 - 4:00 PM
First Friday 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Memory Trace is an exhibition of pieced vintage textiles.
In an effort to expand community outreach, Debra Smith will be creating a temporary studio within the walls of the exhibition space. She invites the community to get a peek into the creative eye and the evolution of her pieced silk textiles. After a recent surgery, Smith felt her brain cells diminished, and she began to revisit the lost bits of pieced vintage silk that had been created over the last 20 years but had not yet made it into a finished work. During her recovery and in an effort to maintain a studio practice Smith created 100 7 x 7 inch pieces reflecting on these Memory Traces that have occurred over the years.
Along with the installation of these 100 works, Smith will also be creating a living wall of silk that will be sewn over the length of the show in a temporary studio set up within the exhibition space. Guests are invited to sit, chat, or bring a lunch while the artist sews. Several student visits, private lunches and pop-up events will be scheduled during the month. Please contact the artist to schedule a visit or follow along on social media for events.
The 2017 Exhibition Series has been made possible through the generous financial support of Jane Hunt Meade and Dr. Benjamin Meade.
THE THREAD YOU FOLLOW
Currently on view at THE DAUM Museum:
The Thread You Follow, an exhibition featuring artist Debra Smith and Donna Sharrett,
on view from October 1 to December 20
Debra M Smith and Donna Sharrett are fiber artists who employ an eclectic and intricately technical practice that bridges the conventional divide between crafts and fine art. Both artists repurpose found fabric in their compositions, which is painstakingly cut and stitched together to form compatible, yet distinct, bodies of work. Sharrett employs a sculptural approach to explore memory and symbolic ritual in her circular assemblages. Smith takes a more painterly interest in the arrangement of her fabric scraps, and concentrates on the formal language of shape, color, and texture in rectangular arrangements that yield a cubist-inspired graphics.
The exhibition seeks to spark an aesthetic dialogue between Sharrett’s and Smith’s oeuvres by installing them in a single, large gallery that affords each a discreet but common space. The work of both is clearly slow to make and there is obvious care, patience, and skill. This is an essential and shared characteristic; however, while they explore similar media and processes, they diverge in terms of intent and presentation. Sharrett’s assemblages invite close scrutiny and play to archetypal understanding; Smith’s compositions are best contemplated as unified wholes and offer stimulus for the viewer’s imaginings.
SHIFTING TERRITORY
SHIFTING TERRITORY
January 8th-February 7th
Opening Reception, Thursday, January 8th, 2015
Kathryn Markel Fine Art
529 West 20th, suite 6W
New York, NY 10011
212-366-5368