Location:
Maryland Institute College of Art
Decker Gallery Fox Building
Avenue, Maryland
When: December 4, 2009
Starts at: 10:00 AM
This is not an all day event
Description:
Brought To You By: Maryland Institute College of Art
Phone: 410-225-2300
Event Website: Click hereCost: FREE!
Dates & Times: Every Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday from
12/04/2009 - 03/14/2010 :: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
This winter, MICA will mount Warren Seelig: Textile per se, a retrospective of textile-based constructions by Rockland, Maine-based fiber artist Warren Seelig. Seelig, who is teaching an interdisciplinary drawing course at the College during the fall semester, has insisted on continuously defining and redefining the qualities that are unique to textile and especially to a kind of abstraction rooted in repetitive processes.
The exhibition, which will include works produced by ceramics, fiber, interdisciplinary sculpture, and general fine arts majors in Seeligâ??s class, features selections from Seeligâ??s three main bodies of work. These include hand-woven and manipulated wall mounted works of the 1970s and early â??80s and the skeletal/skin â??spoke and wheelâ?쳌 sculptures from the â??80s and â??90s. MICA will also reveal Seeligâ??s most recent series of works that examine matter and light, Shadowfields.
â??This is the first opportunity to acknowledge and examine Seeligâ??s major contributions in defining the field of fiber in one space,â?쳌 says Susie Brandt, chair of MICAâ??s fiber department and curator of the exhibition. â??As well, it is equally satisfying to finally see such a large part of his oeuvre.â?쳌
In addition to transforming MICAâ??s galleries with Seeligâ??s idiosyncratic hybrid forms, the exhibition includes the artistâ??s preparatory works â?" models, samples, and sketches â?" to provide a glimpse into his working process.
A reception will be held Friday, December 4, 5-7 pm. Artist Talk: Thursday, February 11, 7 pm, Decker Gallery, Fox Building
Image credit: Warren Seelig, Shadowfield/Colored Light (detail), stainless steel, florescent Plexiglas, Collection Reading Public Museum, 2007, photo by Jack Ramsdale.
