Soft:
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Date
2012-05-12
Authors
Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University
Jenkner, Ingrid
Belcher, Katie
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Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery
Abstract
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"Soft" is the sixth in a series of exhibitions designed to prompt conversations
between works from the MSVU Collection. The common ground for the
current conversation is the tactile quality of softness. Of course, like any
good conversation, this one ranges further than might be expected. There
are conventionally "soft" art works in the exhibition, but also some surprises.
The exhibition includes fabric collage with fine embroidery by Anna Torma,
beadwork by Colette Whiten, "performable" textiles by Gary Markle
and a continuously collapsing sculpture by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor
Mahovsky. Each in its own way, the works resist structural fixity—some
through their soft material and others in their surrender to gravity.
Keywords
Textile crafts , Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery