BUILT ON THE SITE of … / Installation

Feeling grateful that I live in a town crazy enough to invite me do a little takeover of the Municipal Building. Huge thanks to the Village Arts Commission of Hastings-on-Hudson for their support and to all the wonderful folks in Village Hall who let me hang out there with my coax cable in the wee hours of the night.

BUILT ON THE SITE of...

Art Installation
Village Hall, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
April 16 – June 8, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday April 21, 6-9pm

At the street-level entrance to Hastings-on-Hudson’s Municipal Building, a Museum in the Streets sign explains to visitors and passersby that the Village Hall is “BUILT ON THE SITE of the home of Joseph Treanor, owner of a waterfront bluestone yard.” Teased from the signage, BUILT ON THE SITE of... opens up stories of the Municipal Building’s past lives, unearthing from its surfaces pages upon pages of ghostly fragments and remains. Warped paper forms fill walls, frayed communication cables travel here and there, and threaded maps spread elsewhere. These and other site-specific interventions meander through the building, where physical and administrative architectures operate not as passive backdrops for art hanging, but as active portals for imagining other times and other places.

Table Settings / The Fine Art Textiles Award

Insanely honoured to learn that Table Settings has been shortlisted for The Fine Arts Textile Award 2022 alongside the incredible work of 13 other artists. The shortlisted artworks will be exhibited at The Festival of Quilts this August and The Knitting and Stitching Show in London and Harrogate October and November.

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Table Settings
, 2020-21
Four weeks of dinner tracings with pencil and thread on recycled household linens
68 x 48 inches

Table Settings gives form to the accumulated tracings of plates, utensils and all the other objects that make up the shifting terrain of a single dinner table. It quietly grapples with patterns of everyday life made more apparent and more tangible over the course of countless days and nights. The patterns are belabored and bewildering—on one side a record of relations and movement, and on the other a tactile universe emerging from lines that are normally wiped away.

Undercover at Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII

Undercover will be part of Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII, FAVA’s 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts, from May 12 - July 29, 2018. From AQM: The Artist as Quiltmaker is the second-longest-running  art quilt exhibition in the world. This year's exhibition will feature the work of 32 artists from across North America, selected from a pool of over 300 entries. FAVA deliberately chooses not to define “quilt,” thereby encouraging both established and emerging artists to submit innovative artwork, pushing boundaries and challenging expectations, whether they use traditional or non-traditional techniques or materials. JUROR for 2018: Emily Zilber; The Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Remembering 1209 at Craft Forms 2017

Remembering 1209 is on view at Craft Forms 2017, the International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts, from December 8, 2017 through January 27, 2018

Remembering 1209
Old Rayon/Cotton Curtain panel, Discarded Men’s White Cotton Shirt, Organic Cotton, Cotton Batting, Thread
GPS Track Recordings, Pencil Drawing, Machine Piecing, Free-motion Stitching
37 x 24
Made in Singapore
2015

studio news

I'm so honoured to be the 2016 Founder’s Award recipient for Remembering 1209 in Artist as Quiltmaker: the 17th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts, now through July 31, 2016, in Oberlin, OH, USA. The show is juried by Mark Newport, head of the Fibers Department at Cranbrook and the maker of these sweatermen costumes, embroidered record covers, and other amazings.

Remembering 1209
Old Rayon/Cotton Curtain panel, Discarded Men’s White Cotton Shirt, Organic Cotton, Cotton Batting, Thread
GPS Track Recordings, Pencil Drawing, Machine Piecing, Free-motion Stitching
37 x 24
Made in Singapore
2015