Interwoven

February 2 - March 10, 2024

Opening reception Friday, February 2nd 6-9pm. 

After the success of “A Peek Behind the Curtain”, our large works on paper show, we decided to start a new tradition of a material-specific group show to start off each calendar year. The goal is to bring together like-minded artists who both share material and conceptual interests, yet push the bounds of their medium in exciting, innovative and individual directions.

For 2024, we chose fiber art as our starting point. We were drawn to the intimacy and softness of the medium, the personal quality of our relationship to fabric. Hence “Interwoven” was born: a desire to weave together the multiplicity of voices in our community, a celebration of our varied identities and histories, and the shared desire to make room for and listen to each other.

True community is complex, and not always easy. It is multi-generational, small red satin breucci made by a mother for her daughter. It is the wound of estrangement, of the loss of a shared language across immigrant generations. It is the understanding that illness and pain take their time and build their walls, in a system that has not made allowance for them, never-mind support. Perhaps it is the understanding of each other’s wounds, and the desire to help heal them, that makes community.

Through our presence, our patience, and our touch, we hope to stitch together a new—and gentler—way to be interwoven.

- Sammy Bennett & Weihui Lu