Leisure, Adornment, and Magnificence Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes”

Leisure, Adornment, and Magnificence Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes”

“Though every of us are making work knowledgeable by our distinctive experiences and views, nobody is making work in a vacuum. We’ve got all been knowledgeable by a shared international expertise, altering expertise, a standard consciousness of artwork historical past, and our present political and social local weather. It’s attention-grabbing to see how these commonalities change into teased out by the curators of the present, and most significantly how the viewers may even see themselves inside that narrative,” Helina Metaferia stated.

Ebony G. Patterson, …they questioned what to do… for many who bear/naked witness 2018, Hand-cut jacquard woven photograph tapestry with glitter, appliqués, pins, brooches, elaborations, cloth, tassels, acrylic, glass pearls, beads, 3 hand-embellished resin-based roosters on stands, on artist-designed cloth wallpaper 112 x 74 in. Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.