a wild patience has taken me this far poem

The wall of braided ropes will grow, the shelves with bobbins ready for braiding, and the workshop area brings labor, value, play, and friendship into conversation.Īrtist Amanda Curreri and the RopeWalk Crew invite you to join them weekdays 12-4pm in the gallery. Inspired by Italian-American labor histories, the work is named after the 19th and 20th century industrial buildings whose form mirrored their function. Textiles, banners, and rope-making engage dialogue around labor and value, identity and freedom, and emergent possibilities. Teaching and making art in the current political climate have deeply impacted this body of new work.Īrtworks in this exhibition include self-drafted garments large-scale, two-sided banners that function as soft architectures paintings composed from recycled flag-parts, deconstructed garments, dog toys, and elements from LGBTQ+ archives a double vision ritual and a collage-prayer titled, Signals, that faces-off with of a 13 foot-long work titled, Jury Box.Īdditionally, RopeWalk––a participatory artwork––will be ongoing throughout the exhibition. –– Adrienne Rich, “The Images,” in A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, Poems 1978-1981ĭouble Vision is a large-scale installation remixing modern temple architectures with an active making and pedagogical space. We continually fail to ask are they true for us. Violence into patterns so powerful and pure

Reorganizing victimization frescoes translating Painted ceilings beaten gold worm-worn Pietàs Never deny its power for disguise for mystification

A wild patience has taken me this far poem