"Grandma" Exhibition
Brooklyn Fire Proof
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What stereotypes and personal associations do we attach to the word "grandma"? This exhibition invited artists to contemplate their own experience of family, memory, and the cultural divide between youth and old age. Who remembers grandma without thinking about growing older, about being old, loneliness, fulfillment, and deathÉ
Chris Bogia uses string and nails and lots of yarn to make flowerpots in appreciation of crafty old ladies' home décor. Matt Borruso made a grotesque school portrait of a young-old person with a huge red nose and oversized ears. Stacy Fisher connects her Grandma and new Grandma-in-law with a spaghetti & meatballs sculpture made from patterned fabric and paper maché. Hein Koh remembers her grandmother's native home through the endless amounts of chili peppers she dried on straw mats in the living room. Jeffrey Ralston assembles bright collages deconstructing his mother's drawings of Aunt Ruth's memories of Grandmother's house in Fountain Bridge, GA. Deb Sokolow maps the paranoid delusions of questionable tenants in a Chicago apartment building and its gossipy 80 year old superintendent, Abby (a.k.a "Grandma"). Ann Toebbe channels Grandma Moses in faux-folksy paintings of her childhood memories of her grandmother's farm in Southern Indiana.
Exhibition organized by Ann Toebbe.
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Schedule
from July 31, 2008 to September 07, 2008
Artist(s)
Chris Bogia, Matt Borruso, Stacy Fisher, Hein Koh, Jeffrey Ralston, Deb Sokolow, Ann Toebbe