An
exhibition considering the intersections of craft, (self-)care,
apprenticeship and survival
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Opening at The Center for Craft,
Creativity & Design's (CCCD) Benchspace Gallery & Workshop, January
30, 2014, Loving After Lifetimes of All This is
an exhibition exploring the intersections of craft, (self-)care,
apprenticeship, and survival within the practices of historically
disadvantaged populations. Including artwork and ephemera from over 15
artists, activists, and archives nationwide, this exhibition considers
'craft' in an expanded sense to include such practices as homeopathy,
scrapbooking, gardening, and other do-it-yourself (DIY) strategies for
self-reliance.
With a focus on intergenerational
skill-sharing, this exhibition positions craft-practice alongside the
histories of community service, citizen journalism, and volunteerism, as
another potential strategy for cultural resistance. In addition to traditional
techniques such as weaving, quilting, ceramics, and woodworking, artists in
this exhibition incorporate video, photography, archival material, and
performance into their multi-disciplinary projects that often hybridize the
historical with the contemporary.
Opening
Reception: Friday, January 30, 2014
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm Location: Benchspace Gallery & Workshop at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 67 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC 28801 Admission: Free Exhibition Dates: January 30 - May 23, 2015 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
FEATURED ARTISTS
Gina Adams (Lawrence,
KS); Tanya Aguiñiga (Los
Angeles, CA); Natalie M. Ball (Chiloquin,
OR); Jonathan D. Barnett (Kansas
City, MO); NedRa Bonds (Kansas
City, KS); Sonya Clark (Richmond,
VA); Matthew Dehaemers (Kansas
City, MO); Josh Faught (San
Francisco, CA); Christopher Leitch (Kansas
City, MO); Judith G. Levy (Lawrence,
KS); Ramekon O'Arwisters (San
Francisco, CA); Tina Takemoto (San
Francisco, CA); and Temporary Services (Chicago,
IL & Copenhagen, Denmark)
DETAILS
Exhibition highlights include an
installation of artwork and video from San Francisco artist Tina Takemoto's Looking for Jiro Onuma and Gentleman's Gaman projects
(2011). Inspired by the life of Jiro Onuma, a gay Japanese-American
imprisoned within America's Japanese incarceration camps during WWII,
Takemoto has produced a performance film and various handcrafted objects that
investigate Onuma's strategies for survival. Sonya Clark,
of Richmond, VA, will have four artworks on view relative to her ongoing
investigations of early African-American entrepreneurship and endurance,
including Barbershop Pole (2008)
produced entirely from black combs. Two painted quilts from Klamath/Modoc
artist Natalie M. Ball (Chiloquin,
OR) interpret the reemergence of Modoc Ghost Dance ceremonies within
contemporary tribal contexts. Chicago and Copenhagen-based
collaboration Temporary
Services contributes Booklet Cloud (1998-2014), an interactive
installation of suspended publications, including How-To's and guides to
'creative approaches to living radically,' produced by their publishing
imprint Half Letter Press. Self-help periodicals also appear within the
weavings of San Francisco-based artist Josh Faught, whose artwork Triage (2009)
pays tribute to home-care, self-care, and activism throughout the ongoing
AIDS crisis.
This exhibition was organized
by Charlotte Street Foundation and curated by Charlotte Street's 2013-14
Curator in Residence, Danny Orendorff. This
project receives support from the NC Arts Council, a division of
the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts, through the Asheville Area Arts Council.
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