"A Curious Thread" Exhibition
Cuchifritos
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Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space is pleased to announce "A Curious Thread," curated by DTL Projects, a collective initiative by contemporary art curators. This group exhibition, the debut presentation by DLT projects, offers the work of five emerging artists, selected and brought together by DTL Projects, who collectively argue for new, post-ironic 21st century romanticism. Focusing on the agency gained by artists in the studio, "A Curious Thread" explores the development of a new movement – one that reinvents and redefines a previously out-of-fashion, well-trodden trope. The works reference domestic spaces, materials, and actions via media, concept, and construction. Each artist alludes to some element of childhood, craft, or memory and, through re-imagining or re-purposing their media, encourages viewers to enter into an altered reality or illusion: i.e. “fall down the rabbit hole."
James Weingrod's self-illuminating grandfather clock, Max Glaser’s fragmented wood and mirror constructions, and Maria Jose Duran’s yarn shelters mediate and explore transcendent icons of children’s stories: the looking glass from Alice in Wonderland and the grandfather clock from "The Nutcracker." Lori Merhige’s installation, "Matriarch," explores family mythology and personal narrative through a reconsideration of a family heirloom– her grandmother’s embroidery– repositioning it as part of a larger installation driven by loss and reconciliation.
[Image: Lori Merhige "Matriarch" (2009) mixed media, approx. 7 x 3 x 3 in. Photo courtesy of the artist and Cuchifritos gallery and project space]
Media
Schedule
from September 18, 2010 to October 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-18 from 16:00 to 18:30
Artist(s)
Maria Jose Duran, Max Glaser, Lori Merhige, Tom Pnini, James Weingrod