"ShearGlory" Exhibiton
Devotion Gallery
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ShearGlory is as sharp as it is soft. Carrie Mae’s sculptures and couture costumes are made of confiscated scissors from airport security and other potentially dangerous recycled objects. She shares this space with artist Elena Ailes, creator of felted storm clouds, quiet photograms and pencil drawings. The two artists share an aesthetic language, full of totemic mystery, circular logic and beauty.
Greatly inspired by Hindu yantras and Tibetan mandala sand paintings, Carrie Mae Rose has come to believe that just like a pure resonant note shatters a glass, a visual imprint of beauty and perfection changes the viewer. Her circular sculptures hold an essence of the macrocosm and microcosm, bringing harmony on an archetypal level.
Elena’s newest work is of felted cloud-like structures. Grey, black and white wool are blended together to create ‘storm clouds’, each one distinct and perfect, stitched together into larger tapestries and embellished with embroidery. These tapestries are intended to be low hanging skies within the gallery itself; hung low, manipulating the viewer into a hunched or stooped position. This body of work mixes the visual language of science and craft. It is informed by the most personal struggles and desires, as well as arcing philosophical inquiries and the purity of form, light and space.
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Schedule
from March 11, 2011 to April 03, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-11 from 19:00 to 21:00