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ALTERATIONS
Laura Boban, 13 Roots/Sequoia LeBreux & Maggie Whittemore
On view: August 2 – 29
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 6, 5-7pmArtists have always altered stories, materials and objects, picking up where others left off and recontextualizing what is known or expected. Like a tailor modifying a garment to better fit a unique form, the artists in Alterations similarly engage with creative methods of taking in and letting out. Working through a feminist lens, they imbue female Greek mythology characters with agency and power, reclaim their relationship to girlhood, and celebrate the complexities of parenting through painting, soft sculpture and prints. The tactile breadth of works in this show reveal ways that the process of altering has potential for healing, liberation and wonder.
LAURA BOBAN is a visual artist and educator whose art practice is rooted in textile processes and references–hand and machine stitching, piecework, yarn wrapping and patterning. Working across the realm of fiber art provides opportunities to expand and release quilting and textiles from a purely domestic context and highlight their value as an art form and ground for abstract designs. The quilts, paintings and sculptures in this exhibition reflect Laura’s experience of becoming a parent and contending with dueling realities–joy and anxiety, comfort and heartbreak, exhaustion and patience. She intends for viewers to draw connections between the works and experience a vibrant, tactile language of craft, connection and softness.
13 ROOTS is the moniker of Sequoia LeBreux, a visual artist working primarily in ceramic, textile, and printmaking. Her work draws on her experiences of growing up in the hills of Western Massachusetts, and the magic she found there. Across different mediums, each material must be transformed through process to reach its final state. Each object has been touched and altered, whether through printing, stitching, beading, dyeing, sculpting, or firing. This transformation, like magic in a fairytale, gives the work its life. As you step inside her adult-sized altar to girliness, or view her prints or sculptures, you step into a world of animated spirits, portals, and magic. Each piece is a collaboration between invisible realms, the material, and the hands of the artist.
MAGGIE WHITTEMORE is a painter and illustrator based in Boston, MA. Her current works are medium to large-scale oil paintings and digital paintings, mainly using the nude female form and natural surroundings in surreal or unexpected ways. These works are her attempt to capture the beauty and complexities of authentic self-expression and acceptance as a woman in a patriarchal world. Her current motif, ‘reverse sirens’, are nude women with fish heads. This collection presents a new narrative for the female nude in painting, a reclamation of discarded parts and identities in the wake of trauma. The main collection features four famous victims of Zeus in Greek myth, giving them new narratives where they triumph, actualitize, and find a supportive community.
