Exhibition: Gestures of Resistance
Gray Matters
113 N Haskell Ave
Dallas TX 75226
214-824-7108
February 20 - March 22, 2008
Opening reception Friday, February 22, 6-9 pm. Co-hosted by Slow Food Dallas.
Artists Included in the Exhibition:
Anthea Black
Kelly Cobb
Liz Collins with Sabrina Gschwandtner, Allison Smith, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Cat Mazza, and Julia Bryan Wilson
Barb Hunt
Sarah Klein
Barbara Koenen
Robyn Love
Carole Lung AKA Frau Fiber
Cat Mazza
Zoe Sheehan Seldana
Ehren Tool
Christopher Whittey and Kristine Woods
Anne Wilson with Sara Rabinowitz and team; Jeroen Nelemans video; Surabhi Ghosh photography
Sherri Wood
Special Installations:
Robyn Love has over fifty volunteers working with her to knit a mile of duplicate yellow stripe to be installed along a Dallas road.
Sherri Wood will be publicly sewing her Repent/Mercy banners at the Conference Artspace.
Anthea Black is producing a limited edition postering campaign around Dallas.
Workshop with Frau Fiber
KO Manufacturing–every little bit helps.
Franchise workshop: white collar shirt production.
Saturday, February 24th 10am to 5pm
This workshop presents an alternative to participating in the consumption of disposable garments. Participants will learn sewing construction techniques for producing a “white-collar” shirt. Knocking off a ‘white-collar’ shirt originally purchased at a Tesco’s store for $7 generated the pattern for this garment. Tesco is a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share, and is the worlds third-largest retailer, behind Wal-Mart of the US and Carrefour of France.
Workshop Materials: old disassembled clothes, recycled domestic linens, found or borrowed thread, scissors, tape measure, sewing machine, pins and a pencil.
Frau Fiber will provide – pattern and instructions.
Recommended donation $20. To sign up for workshop send e-mail to performingcraft@gmail.com.
The exhibition is organized in conjunction with a panel of the same name, being held at the CAA Conference on Wednesday, February 20th from 2:30 - 5:00 pm. Panel details here
Gray Matters is an artist-run space directed by Vance Wingate. Special thanks also to Amy Revier for exhibition assistance.