Exhibitions
Vibha Galhotra
Galhotra's work revolves around environmental issues such as industrialization and globalization. Through providing historical, theoretical, and political themes into her work, Galhotra is able to strongly convey the ties between culture and tradition with the current state of our world. Offering a counter to the conventional approach to environmental studies, Galhotra seeks to expand the discourse to include history, theory, political intervention, economy, tradition, and culture when considering the current state of environmental degradation. Her exhibition is meant to represent the potential catastrophic events that could occur on Earth through its depletion of natural resources and societies need for survival. Her pieces act as a haunted warning of what we could possibly be heading towards as a global population.
Eric N. Mack
Mack's installation work uses a range of items; that being used in this installation is readymade objects such as garmets, blankets, assorted fabrics, etc. He uses such materials to reconteztualize our understanding of clothing and identity. Through his use of dye, paint, and texture, Mack's work flows with references to the fashion industry and its seductive quality on society, as well as. “My process negotiates with the materiality connecting with the site,” Mack explains. “I look for opportunities in the architecture, which takes a degree of planning and anticipation. The work seeks intrinsic prospects for intervention, but a degree of improvisation is also a part of it: conjecture and learning in regard to what is possible spatially.”
Pia Camil
Camil is well known for her large and colorful fabric installations that consume not only the viewer's attention but overwhelms their environment. Gaby’s T-Shirt is an interactive artwork made out of secondhand T-shirts and sewn together by seamstresses in Camil's community in Mexico City. The T-shirts were originally made in different countries across Latin America and were then exported to the United States. After being discarded, they were then resold in flea markets such as the one in Iztapalapa in Mexico City, where Camil had found them. Camil collected these discarded garments and assembled them into a dramatic floor-to-ceiling curtain that reclaims the democracy of her materials. Viewers are allowed and encouraged to interact with the work, touching and appreciating these cast out items, experiencing Camil's reflection of economic colonization.