Christalena Hughmanick: The Fish Don’t Talk About the Water
@ Fernwey
916 N Damen Avenue
Opening Friday, January 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, February 28th
…Taking from the purely functional, Hughmanick looks to familiar methods and forms – didactic and traditional – to maneuver a way to less concrete conclusions. For this artist, to dwell in the unknown and the incalculable is just as fulfilling as a finished quilt or a full night of rest. Not unlike the Amish who master their handmade crafts as a means to live a life that is centered on God, Hughmanick also seeks to enter a realm of the sublime…
Read the full essay by Janet Yoon here:
http://www.fernwey.com/formfunction
Fernwey Gallery is pleased to present our first show of the 2016 Season, “The Fish Don’t Talk About The Water”, with new works by Christalena Hughmanick featuring floral arrangements by Ohara School of Ikebana Instructor, Yuko Inoue Darcy. Please join us and the artist for an opening reception on Friday January 29th, from 7-10pm at 916 N Damen Avenue, Chicago.
Over centuries ancient civilizations have devised simple tools for cartography, land survey and the construction of monolithic structures. The 3rd century BC engineers of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza used the plumb bob to plot foundations and around the same time latitude and longitude was proposed by the Greek mathematician, geographer and music theorist Eratosthenes. This is the initial recognition that longitude can be determined by accurate knowledge of time. The textile and sculpture works in “The Fish Don’t Talk About the Water†present themselves on a shifting continuum of form and utility. Featured quilts abstract the traditional double four patch pattern and utilize the modernist grid as a system of order within which images can be unearthed. Can these works escape their perceived use value by becoming a navigational tool in the psychic space of dreams?
Christalena Hughmanick received her MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibition sites include The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, SOIL Gallery in Seattle, as well as Document and Western Exhibitions in Chicago. Her performance work has been published in the 2012 edition of Emergency Index. She has received scholarships from the Lenore Tawney Foundation, Northampton Arts Council and was the recipient of a Grainger Marburg Travel Scholarship. Christalena is currently a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
www.christalenahughmanick.com
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