My concept of time had evolved into a distorted husk of what it once was - it’s somehow nearly October and the opening of my two-person show with my amazing friend and collaborator @dance_doyle is just around the corner! DIRTY MIRROR opens this Friday 10/1, 11-7pm at @secondstreetgallery in Charlottesville, VA. @kristennevermore of Second Street Gallery has been such a supportive and thoughtful curator to work with. I’m so excited to show you guys what Dance and I have been working on! . Dirty Mirror is a collaborative exchange between two fiber artists who utilize meticulous, hyper-detailed, and self-taught practices profoundly rooted in time-honored craft techniques, as tools to bring order to their respective worlds and contend with trauma, mental illness, and addiction. Through the use of fibers, the artists provide glimpses into hidden universes that relay the simultaneous destruction and growth of matter. Doyle’s labor intensive, autobiographical tapestries depict subjects, occasionally with their skeletons exposed, situated in distorted cityscapes. These environments transition from one to the next as the eye is drawn downward, similar to a cross-section of the earth’s layers, revealing painstakingly detailed renderings of buildings, objects, and interactions between figures. McCormack’s complex networks of hand-wrought fiber sculptures, evocative of taxonomical specimens and fossils unearthed in the soil, posit traumatic experiences as interactions between the remains of decaying organisms stumbled upon in the woods. The juxtaposition of the expressive figures in Doyle’s urban narratives with McCormack’s intricate depictions of organic systems at work forms a dialogue in which each artist’s imagery provides insight into the other. This exhibition is generously sponsored by Daniel & Rosemary Chiacchia. #textileart #fiberart #fiberartist #tapestry #weaving #weaversofinstagram #crochet #crochetart #crochetartist #fibersculpture #textileartistsofinstagram (at Second Street Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUXgLTFL13L/?utm_medium=tumblr
