BRECE HONEYCUTT "Birch #3" (2010) handspun wool, birch bark 20 x 25 x 4 in.

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.

Read more about other artists participating in String Theory HERE

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September 2 – 12, 2010
Opening party: Thursday September 2, 6-9
Sharon Goldberg Contemporary Art at Gowanus Edge Curatorial Exchange
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Chateau Mathieu, a private residence in Normandy, France was built in the latter part of the 18th century.  In June of 2009, I and five other colleagues had the opportunity to work at the chateau in a two-week experimental residency to research and create new contemporary artworks that responded directly to the history of the site.

My particular interest was in the matrilineal legacy of the chateau itself. I wanted to explore ideas of the private and public as they applied to women during the Victorian era. Within wealthy families, women were, for the most part, relegated to the private sphere of the home where they spent their time embroidering in the sitting room and entertaining guests at the piano. At the same time, their poor rural counterparts were moving to the city and becoming part of the public workforce instigated by mechanization, mass production and the industrial revolution.  Through the use of embroidery as well as the use of rich fabrics referencing the opulent domestic interiors of these “ladies of leisure”it was my intention to speak to these women’s isolation, lack of agency and stifled creativity through subversive means.  I created pieces to specifically install in various locations in the chateau.  As well, over the course of the residency I created a number of site-specific works on the grounds of the chateau that I sometimes refer to as “exterior decorating”.  I have presented these experimental works here in the context of various chateau locations.

A collaborative bookwork based on this residency is currently in progress and a culminating exhibition will be presented at the Esplanade Art Gallery in Medicine Hat, Alberta in the fall of 2012.

Visit the Artist’s website HERE

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“Bottle the Sky” was an event held on the banks the Bow River in downtown Calgary, Alberta as part of the Choose Yer Own Festival…

…a festival based on sweet adventure, and built around a love for Calgary and the many great projects that happen here. Choose Yer Own is a collaborative festival. Anybody can put anything on, which means the festival is always unpredictable and surprising. The festival tries to use unusual venues that are all within biking distance of one another, encouraging exploration and interaction with the city.

My partner and fellow sky-gazer Kristofer Kelly devised the event, encouraging almost a hundred participants to collect water from the river, and then colour it to match the sky. Some chose to match the colour they saw, others attempted to recreate a sky from memory. Children, it seemed had an altogether different approach, understanding immediately that the whole point was to play with colour, creating some of the most incredible colours we saw that day.

The colours we used were naturally sourced excepting one jar with a few drops of blue food-colouring. Teas, spices, fruit juices and milk provided a palette for sunsets, stormy skies and the smoky haze of distant forest fires.

The stories that this experience elicited from its participants were funny, touching, sometimes romantic and even haunting. I was struck by how something so simple can inspire such spontaneous, meaningful communication between strangers. Thank you to each person who came by and took part in this event. We won’t soon forget the experience of bottling the sky with you.

Bottle The Sky from Kris Kelly on Vimeo.

95 People Bottled the Sky by the Bow river in Caglary Alberta at the ChooseYerOwn Festival on August 7, 2010.

Link to Artist BLOG

Thank you Elis Vermeulen

You are invited to view Telling Tales, an exhibition of Jacquard-woven textiles by joe Lewis and Kathy Schicker on Poplar Gallery.Online in gallery1. This exhibition explores the potential of the woven image to tell stories that are at once personal and compelling.

Maternal Lineage by Dana Buzzee continues in gallery2 until September 17, 2010.

Poplar Gallery.Online showcases the work of craftspeople and artists working in all disciplines. Poplar is currently accepting proposals from artists, curators and studio collectives. Two online spaces are available for alternating twelve or sixteen-week exhibitions. For more information contact curator Mackenzie Frere at info@mackenziefrere.com

Seventy Thousand Curtains, New Art Group

Atefeh Khas, (one of the artists in the ongoing exhibition (Re)Fashioning Fibre)  is a member of New Arts Group, a collective of Iranian artists working in a variety of media including performance, environmental art and photography. Collaborative projects between members of the group often include all three. Members travel the country creating work in the natural landscape with gentle interventions that are both thoughtful and thought provoking. I encourage you to check out their blog for more information HERE (the link for older blog posts is in the bottom left-most corner of the page.)

Green Carpet