Brece Honeycutt & Audra Wolowiec Exhibition
Pocket Utopia
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Pocket Utopia presents an exhibition of artists Brece Honeycutt and Audra Wolowiec. In conversation with the physical space and with an acknowledgement of history, particularly the history of feminist art (materials, production, and execution), both artists create an open dialogue or a presence.
Honeycutt, literally in attendance, working as a Pocket Utopia artist in residence, knits and weaves within a cultural context, referencing myth, memory, and the web that may or may not hold it all together. Using her fingers to knit and sometimes incorporating plastic bags, she spins the space into a place of permission.
Wolowiec removes and receives space from the architecture and the body, by drawing on the gallery walls, embedding human hair within it and removing circles of it in a wall exchange program or what she terms “points of exchange.” Wolowiec also “exchanges” a freckle with a friend by getting a tattoo; here a circle of ink is shared. Certificates and photographs document her process.
Wolowiec finds; presenting a series of drawings on discarded lottery tickets, investigates and replaces. Whether made in the space, as in the case of Honeycutt, or drawn on the wall or cut out of it, as in the case with Wolowiec, both artists reside in a pocket utopia. A utopia of the egalitarian hand-made and marked. The resulting social fabric of the exhibition is a work space turned worked space where there is a deeper understanding of an artist space.
Pocket Utopia is also pleased to present an our spring public artist in-situ, Graham Coreil-Allen’s Visionary Crosswalks, a series of interactive crosswalk installations throughout the neighborhood of Bushwick.
Visionary Crosswalks will consist of five temporary "crosswalks" demonstrating some of the casual paths that pedestrians take when navigating various intersections in the northwest section of Bushwick.
Interested participants can find maps and installation locations for Visionary Crosswalks at Pocket Utopia.
[Image: Brece Honeycutt "Arachne #1" (2008) Homespun wool & stainless steel pins 24 × 24 in.]
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Schedule
from May 09, 2008 to June 01, 2008
Opening Reception: May 9, 6-10 pm.