Ormond Memorial Art Museum
December 9th, 2011 – January 15th, 2012
Artists: Christina Massey, Patricia A. Montgomery & Eun-Kyung Suh
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
78 E. Granada Blvd.
Ormond Beach, Florida 32176-6534
ph (386) 676-3347
“Women of the Uncommon Cloth” featuring the fiber-related artwork of three artists will be on exhibit at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum from December 9 – January 15, 2012.
Museum closed: Saturday, Dec. 10, Dec. 25 & 26 & Jan. 1 & 2
Regular Hours: Mon. – Fri., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sat. & Sun. 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
$2.00 suggested donation.
Business & Pleasure 7
This unique show will feature the work of contemporary quilter, Patricia Montgomery, mixed media artist, Christina Massey and installation work by Eun-Kyung-Suh.
Brooklyn native, Christina Massey discusses her “Business and Pleasure” series, “During the winter of 2008-2009 I was laid-off of my job due to the economic Recession. With mixed emotions of hurt and rejection from the loss of the job, I also felt relief from a commitment to a job I didn’t want. Losing my job during that time gave me a place in History, and I felt connected to all the millions of people in the same position as me and sought to create a series of work that focused on these mixed emotions.
Using collared shirts and khaki pants donated from bank employees, I hand stitched together sections of my own past “failed” work that had been torn and cut up with scraps of new canvas. This organic, quilt-like surface is stretched over a frame and painted with acrylic and oil paints.
Physically fragments of new and old, success and failure, business and pleasure these works are bits & pieces of my past and present, likes and dislikes, a merger of corporate requirements and the livelihood of being an Artist.”
Patricia Montgomery from the San Francisco Bay area notes, “Syncopation series are abstract textiles that are characteristic of African American quilts. These characteristics include vivid color palettes, strong contrasting color combinations, asymmetrical and strip piecing. The design and development of this series is based on color, texture and rhythm.
These contemporary African American quilts provide a colorful celebration of the human spirit and community.”
Korean-born, Duluth-based textile installation artist Eun-Kyung Suh, received a M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA in the U.S.A. She has been focusing on a series of sculptural vessels as a metaphor for personal, family and cultural memory since 2008. These sculptural vessels are created out of diaphanous textiles, using a design originally inspired by Bojagi, one of traditional art forms in Korea. Bojagi is the wrapping cloth used to cover, store or carry everything from precious ritual objects to everyday clothes and common household belongings.
