STOREFRONT (16 Wilson Avenue) is pleased to
announce String Theory, an exhibition
that features the work of five artists working in fabric, string, and yarn. The
exhibition presents a variety of approaches including conceptual, feminist,
process, and installation. The exhibit features installations by Theresa
Hackett, Elana Herzog, Brece Honeycutt, Ellie Murphy and Drew Shiflett. The
opening reception for the exhibition is Friday, August 27, from 6-9PM.
The show continues through Sunday, September 12. Storefront is open
weekends 1-6PM or by appointment by calling 646-361-8512.
Theresa Hackett's "Thread Drawings From
1991" are influenced by Lucio Fontana and his use of obsessively punctured
wood. Rough and animated, these framed "drawings" are made from pieces of
Italian paper stitched together with a sewing machine. Theresa Hackett has had
several one-person shows in New York and has shown widely throughout the United
States and Europe. Her work has been included in the Weatherspoon Art
Museum 40th Anniversary Art on Paper. She is a recipient of 2009 NYFA
grant and a Fountainhead residency in Miami, Florida.
Elana Herzog is best known for installations in
which textiles are aggressively stapled to wall surfaces and then deconstructed
to produce residual drawings that consist of metal staples, shredded fabric and
perforated gypsum. Elana Herzog lives and works in New York City, where she is
represented by LMAK Projects. Her first solo show at LMAK will be in March 2011.
Upcoming group shows include The Jewel Thief, at the Tang Museum, Saratoga
Springs, New York, and Art on Paper 2010 at the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro,
North Carolina. Herzog has a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from Alfred
University. She is the recipient of the 2009 Anonymous Was A Woman Award and
the 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
Brece Honeycutt makes history-based drawings,
sculptures and installations. Her installations have been placed in exterior
locations including university campuses, historical houses, non-profit spaces,
inner-city parks and in office buildings, museums and galleries. She
collaborates and works with the National Park Service, students, historians,
gardeners, non-profit organizations, poets, dancers, interpreters, government
departments, libraries and senior centers. Honeycutt received an undergraduate
degree in art history from Skidmore College and a Master's degree in sculpture
from Columbia University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lesley Heller
Workspace, New York, and at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. She works with Norte Maar,
Brooklyn, NY, and Susan Conway Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. She lives in Sheffield,
MA and New York, NY.
Ellie Murphy began making large yarn sculptures
after having a child and moving into a house. The work is about the
relationship between personal, domestic and cultural nostalgia. She combines
references to doll hair, crafts, folk motifs and Americana from her 1970's
childhood in Kansas with aspects of modern, conceptual, multicultural and
feminist art. She sees interdependence between the multiplicities of cultures
in our world and uses the process of braiding as a way of playing with the
unintended and humorous connections between them. Murphy has a BFA in sculpture
from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Yale University. Most
recently her work has been shown at the Usdan Gallery, Bennington College,
Vermont; Artists Curated Projects, Los Angeles, California; and at Privateer
Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Drew Shiflett refers to her work as constructed
drawings or compressed sculptures. In her recent body of work there is an
emphasis on drawing, but the pieces are a combination of drawing, relief and
sculpture. Her work is abstract while referencing architecture and textiles,
and it is the result of a cumulative process of layering and building linear
and planar forms. A woven, translucent effect is created through the use
of handmade papers, pencil and ink lines, watercolor wash and conte crayon.
Shiflett received her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at The Maryland
Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She is represented by Lesley
Heller Workspace in New York City and The Drawing Room in East Hampton, NY, and
is currently preparing for a solo exhibition in 2011 at the Guild Hall Museum
of East Hampton. She is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowships -- Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts (2009) and Sculpture (1990).
She also received the Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship in
Sculpture (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Sculpture (1992).
STOREFRONT is located at 16 Wilson Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11237. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00-6:00PM
or by appointment by calling 646-361-8512. The gallery will be open Labor Day
weekend.
DIRECTIONS: L train to Brooklyn, Morgan Avenue
Stop. Walk four blocks on Morgan to Flushing Avenue. Cross Flushing Avenue to
Wilson Avenue. The gallery is located between Noll and George Streets.
