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Ann Agee Agee creates whimsical, rococo-inspired porcelain sculptures that fragment and reassemble motifs of domestic life, labor, and childbearing into playful, exuberant arrangements. Her glazed forms subvert decorative traditions through mischievous reconfigurations. --- Polly Apfelbaum Apfelbaum hand-dyes synthetic velvet into organic, flowing forms that spread across gallery floors like natural growths. Her work Green Space juxtaposes soft textile surfaces against the angularity of interior space, creating infectious, spreading patterns. --- Lynda Benglis Benglis transforms polyurethane and cast paper through tinting, acrylic, and glitter into dense, heavy sculptural forms that contradict their material nature. Her work merges process with form, creating shapes that appear to swell and breathe independently. --- Hanne Friis Friis hand-stitches cotton, satin, and wool into corporeal sculptural forms that appear on the verge of transformation. Her works—Column and Tongue—reference both earth and body, suggesting breathing, swelling, contracting presences through meticulous textile labor. --- Virgil Marti Marti works with urethane, medium-density fiberboard, and silver plating to create sculptural interventions that transform industrial and domestic materials into refined forms. --- Maria Nepomuceno Nepomuceno, based in Brazil, combines clay, beads, and wood into vessels that overflow with amorphous growths of rope and beads, suggesting infinite outpouring energy or spirit. Her beaded weavings radiate outward like natural growth, expanding without apparent human intervention. --- Louise Nevelson Nevelson combines cotton quilts, wood, mirrors, plexiglass, metallic thread, synthetic feathers, and painted wood into mixed media assemblages mounted on plywood. Her practice merges textile, sculptural, and reflective elements. --- Beverly Semmes Semmes works across ceramics, collage, and textile to create vibrant, asymmetrical forms revealing traces of physical labor. Her vessels function as metaphors for the female body; her phallic-like Red Robe merges crushed rayon velvet with acrylic and printed canvas. Each work demonstrates gruntingly physical embodiments of craft and touch. --- Yeesookyung Yeesookyung affixes discarded porcelain shards with epoxy and 24k gold leaf to fabricate elaborate reconstructions of traditional Korean masterpieces. The artist transforms waste material into intricate sculptural forms that reference cultural heritage and material valorization.

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On View
Opens
Jun 3
Closes
Jul 11
Status
Closed
#playful#political
ceramicsmixed mediasculpturetextile
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TEA PARTY brings together nine artists transforming traditionally decorative materials into subversive, sensuous sculptures and mixed media works. Using ceramics, textiles, and found materials, the artists subvert feminine domestic idioms—vessels become metaphors for the body,…

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