Jan 15th 2025

Threads and Granules

@ O'Connor Gallery

7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL 60305, Lewis Hall, 4th fl

Opening Wednesday, January 15th, from 4PM - 6PM

On view through Wednesday, February 19th

No easy beauty characterizes the work of Joanne Aono and Sofía Fernández-Díaz. Grounded in immersive research, both artists de-materialize the familiar, and embrace challenging paths in work and life that recognize the complexities in their twining. They callback to ancestral practices that revel in excavation, renewal and transformation. This feeds a practice that is not just a pursuit of formal beauty but one that engages holistically in unison with nature and daily ritual, growing studio habits with rigor, and broader ideas about lived experience.

Joanne Aono is a visual artist and curator; she lives, works, and maintains a holistic farm in north central Illinois. Her research-based drawings and installations address identity, immigration, and the environment. Her Japanese American identities and experience as a twin sister find their way into the form and content of her work. Dualities of homeland inform Sofía Fernández Díaz’s practice as well, as she exchanges ideas and documents culturally specific processes with artisans from her birthplace in Mexico City.

Please join us for the reception 4-6- Artist Talk at 4:30

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 – 5, Saturday, 10 – 4 Free and open to all.

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