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Constructing Feminine Intimacies

Colette’s Living Environment (1972–1983) — “she thinks, the material and the dream can join,” — ‘Dreamwood,’ Adrienne Rich, Poetry Magazine, 1987 In 1972, after seeing an old parachute as someone’s apartment decor, Colette Lumiere (then known only as Colette) began stapling found fabric to the ceilings, walls, and floors of her Pearl Street loft. A…

Colette

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Constructing Feminine Intimacies
Constructing Feminine Intimacies

Jan 15, 2021

Craftswoman: On Mina Loy

Her earliest memory was not of human faces, the touch of a parent, or even the plush hand of a doll. No, her first memory of the material world would be that of a doorway. A doorway which, upon the sunlight striking its stained-glass ornamentation as her infant bundle was…

Mina Loy

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Craftswoman: On Mina Loy
Craftswoman: On Mina Loy

Dec 11, 2020

Metrograph, 1:46pm

Act I — 12:08 pm Like visiting a museum gallery on a weekday morning or a cemetery in the off-season, only those most loyal, most spurred with sudden agitation cut through the garbage-pimpled alleyways, past hungry crowds collecting around cafe doors and impatient dogs waiting outside grocery stories, to surrender…

Movies

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Metrograph, 1:46pm
Metrograph, 1:46pm

Dec 11, 2020

Folds, Rips, Weaves, Soaked in Ink

From crumpled receipts and printer copies to letters left in mailboxes, paper is a material in a perpetual state of alchemy, becoming vessels for individual and collective communication, maps of memory, transmutable records of histories. …

Zarina

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Folds, Rips, Weaves, Soaked in Ink
Folds, Rips, Weaves, Soaked in Ink

Mar 25, 2019

Tools of Resilience

In her first solo exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, Maia Ruth Lee disrupts the stereotypical assumption that each woman will eventually have to decide between a career or a child through an unexpected system of geopolitical talismans. The quasi-readymade design of Lee’s strewn bundles—kaleidoscopic medleys of plastic tarp, burlap, boxes…

Motherhood

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Tools of Resilience
Tools of Resilience

Nov 19, 2017

Diseased Hagiography: On Trauma and Twin Peaks

“She said people tried to be good, but they are really sick and rotten–her most of all. And every time she tried to make the world a better place something terrible came up inside her and pulled her back down to hell and took her deeper and deeper into the…

Rape

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Diseased Hagiography: On Trauma and Twin Peaks
Diseased Hagiography: On Trauma and Twin Peaks

May 25, 2017

Eyes on the Countryside

If you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss it — a glimpse of color between the old-fashion brick arches of the abandoned Gloucester Road Station platform as you’re on your morning commute. If your train slowed down as you passed, you’d be struck by the strange sight outside your window as…

Surveillance

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Eyes on the Countryside
Eyes on the Countryside
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