The Offerings, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 5-12, 2022.

This collection of sculptures was presented as the culmination of my MFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Front gallery with wall text which reads:

This exhibition re-possesses the architectural elements of column, altar and arch to frame and elevate symbols tied to the creative labors of women with thread. The spinning wheel, a figure with hand-spindle, and tatted lace have all become revered icons. They are both as familiar and as unfamiliar to the artist as they will be to most viewers. The rediscovery of, and reflection on, these technologies of textile are staged through the use of digital fabrication processes. CNC plasma cut steel, 3D printed figurines, digital embroideries, and laser-cut Plexiglas are interwoven with hand-dyed and stitched cotton, hand-modeled and cast clay and latex, hand- buffed-steel and carved foam. The traces of the fingers and of the body of the artist are everywhere as she attempts to physicalize her relationship with small things, like family heirlooms of lace, and huge things, like the systemic devaluation of female-gendered work.

Front gallery view.

From left to right: Omphalos Column, 2022, 22in x 138in x 22in, Colored concrete, Steel, colored hydrocal, paper pulp and Lacework and its Image (Cyanotype), 2022, 124in x 86in x 4in, Wood, dyed textile, thread, great-great-Grandmother’s lacework, cyanotype, t-pins

Detail of a Hydrocal casting in Omphalos Column

Lacework and its Image (Negative), 2022, 124in x 86in x 4in, Wood, dyed textile, thread, great-great-Grandmother’s lacework, cyanotype, t-pins

The Persistence of Memory, 2022, 34in x 18in x 9in, Plaster and cast latex

From left to right: The Spinners , 2022, Dimensions Variable, Digital Embroidery, wood, batting, and steelOmphalos Column, 2022, 22in x 138in x 22in, Colored concrete, Steel, colored hydrocal, paper pulp and Lacework and its Image (Cyanotype), 2022, 124in x 86in x 4in, Wood, dyed textile, thread, great-great-Grandmother’s lacework, cyanotype, t-pins

The Spinners , 2022, Dimensions Variable, Digital Embroidery, wood, batting, and steel

The Spinners (Detail of central panel) , 2022, Dimensions Variable, Digital Embroidery, wood, batting, and steel

The Offering, 2022, 22in x 48in x 22in Concrete blocks, clay, and cast latex

Alternate view of main gallery with Lady of the Wheel at the center.

Lady of the Wheel (detail of hand-marbled fabric and hand-stitched skin) , 2022, Dimensions Variable, CNC Plasma-cut steel, wooden spinning wheel, fabricated steel steps, plaster, wood, marbled textile, thread, and digital embrodery

Lady of the Wheel (detail of hand-stitched thread and wire braid) , 2022, Dimensions Variable, CNC Plasma-cut steel, wooden spinning wheel, fabricated steel steps, plaster, wood, marbled textile, thread, and digital embrodery

Tatted Window , 2022, 52in x 78in x 4in, Laser-cut sand-blasted Plexiglas, cast latex, epoxy-clay

Tatted Window (Detail of latex hand) , 2022, 52in x 78in x 4in, Laser-cut sand-blasted Plexiglas, cast latex, epoxy-clay

Image of gallery entrance with Tit Pics 2021, Dimensions Variable Steel, and cast latex

Alternate view of Tit Pics 2021, Dimensions Variable Steel, and cast latex