Join us for a presentation by visiting artist Coral Penelope Lambert, and a closing reception for the exhibition, re:growth. Coral will share her process and ideas along with a discussion of her work in the show.
 
Artworks Loveland
310 N. Railroad Ave, Loveland, CO 
Friday, June 30th
Artist Talk at 6:30pm
Reception 6-8pm

Coral Penelope Lambert is internationally recognized for large scale cast metal sculpture. Born and raised in the UK, she studied sculpture with leading figures in the field and over the past 25 years has utilized the foundry as her laboratory to explore the process of ‘Speeding up the work of nature’. Her work responds to metals rich history in myth and mining, playing with its weight, permanence and flux. She is Associate Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University in Upstate New York where she also directs the National Casting Centre Foundry.

re:growth is a conversation around the relationship our physical bodies have with our natural world, regarding survival, consciousness, and an intimate and complicated bond with material. Featuring the work of Cori Champagne, Jane Gordon, Coral Penelope Lambert, and Kristen Tordella-Williams. Curated by Amy Joy Hosterman.

Sarah Magida, Embroidery in Progress, embroidery on canvas

freeform art space
3012 Cielo Court
Santa Fe, NM
July 7th - August 3rd
opening reception July 7th, 5:30-8pm

Loose Threads
Three artists investigate materials, labor, womanhood, femininity, and politics through their personal perspectives and sense of touch.  As women, the clothes we choose to wear, the types of work we choose to do, expectations based on beauty and age, or the desire to be feminine yet strong, can run contrary to societal pressures. When confronted with socio-cultural norms that contradict our sense of self and place, different approaches arise to attempt to resolve that dissonance.

Sarah Magida embroiders abstract patterns using a limited style of stitching techniques in order to take each to its full effect. She creates complex, fantastical landscapes of color and shape, line and form, and seats her compositions on canvas as a nod to her original medium of choice, painting. Other fabrics, beads, and lace are often incorporated as she works with the materials intuitively with little planning of composition.

 Fay Stanford’s woodcuts and monotypes, printed on cotton, stitched and painted, explore interactions with nature, the process of aging, and life’s journey. She uses humor and a loose style, creating lightness and optimism within works that embrace the depth and wildness of life and death in our world.


Fay Stanford, Swarm, woodcut and ink on cotton

Gathering by Jane Gordon is a material exploration that plays with site as it offers an aesthetic akin to a comfortably unmade bed or the lapping waves of a lake. She also uses fabric to create forms that are dipped in clay slip and fired, resulting in a ceramic shell of the cloth form. Her use of fabric and ceramic in this way references the dynamic of planned obsolescence or the temporality of nature versus permanence or lasting value.
 

Jane Gordon, Gathering, cotton stained with minerals, clay slip

Categorizing a piece of art as “craft” has often been used to demean or lessen its value, to demonstrate a lesser skill or talent, a lack of conceptual rigor or an immature aesthetic. The use of textiles and other techniques often labelled as “craft” by all three artists creates an association for the work that connects to the history of women’s contributions to these fields while diverging from traditional themes, and also utilizing traditional craft techniques in an experimental fashion.

For the viewer, these works provide a different perspective into materials and techniques, and question the framework generally attributed to them. This questioning is of utmost importance in a society as diverse and complex as our own.

Curated by Jane Gordon