NYAB Event - Donna Sharrett “Love Songs”

Donna Sharrett “Love Songs”

Pavel Zoubok Gallery

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PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY invites you to Love Songs, a solo exhibition of new work by Donna Sharrett, and Sampling, a related group exhibition curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley.

DONNA SHARRETT creates painstakingly wrought assemblages from a potent and personal material lexicon. Her compositions of donated or inherited jewelry, clothing, and buttons are adorned with hair, bone beads, dirt and guitar-strings and are sewn with a variety of traditional needlework techniques. Passed down from a congenial and ancestral sorority of craftswomen and fiber artists, Sharrett’s techniques instill in each piece cross-cultural references to life, death and rebirth. Addressing the shared human ability and desire to remember, her works transcend the confines of economic, religious and cultural boundaries.

Love Songs, the artist’s third solo exhibition at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, will feature two of Sharrett’s largest works to date. Her compositions are created concentrically such that the length of the artist’s arms dictates the scale of these two masterpieces. In pushing the radius of her works to their limit, Sharrett harmonizes material and proportion to emphasize the body and envision its diverse phases and incarnations. In the accompanying catalog essay, Dara Meyers-Kingsley writes:

Thematically Sharrett’s work evokes life as it is lived and remembered – a notion of lineage that is not always linear and narrative but sometimes acts more like a spiral – a growing flower that rises from the earth and whose seeds scatter to become the next crop. That the materials and techniques come with history imbues the work with memory and imbeds references to lives previously lived, their integration into the artwork is a kind of resurrection.

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