Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Penelope is a recent installation from Tatiana Blass – the name for the exhibit is taken from Homer’s Odyssey. Penelope was Odysseus’ wife and she remained faithful for twenty years while he was away at war. To keep her suitors at bay, she kept herself busy for three years weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law while secretly unweaving parts of it at night. She promised she would choose one when she was done but delayed it to remain faithful.

The exhibit was designed to fill the Chapel of Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil, where Blass lives and works. Inside the chapel, a loom sits on the altar. One side has a long red carpet that leads to the door. On the other side of the loom, the chaotic strings of tangled red yarn continue through the holes of the chapel walls to the covered yard outside. The viewer is left to wonder if the piece is being woven or unraveled, like the story of Penelope goes.

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Woman Ironing, 1887, Edgar Degas. French (1834-1917)

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“Stacks” is an outdoor bookshelf installation by artist David Harper made of books and wood.

The theme for Harper’s installation: “these trees shall be my books,” comes from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” but the goal of the work goes far beyond Orlando’s wish to immortalize Rosalind. Harper seeks to immortalize the love of knowledge, and the homage owed to the living things we use to create stores of knowledge for all to study. “STACKS” captures the transformation from living tree to store of knowledge. Read more here.

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JUMP

Photographs from Kingston, Jamaica.
by Rachel Malde
Stirling’s Gallery, January 16 - March 25, 2012
Opening reception Thursday, February 2, 4:00-5:30 

 Children appear from nowhere, giggling, smiling, and beckoning us to follow through the maze of alleys, broken walls, and tenements they know by heart. They pose for the camera, they gather their friends, they laugh. They offer us popsicles.

Children are everywhere in Riverton and Trenchtown, two neighborhoods in Kingston known for their poverty, gangs, and crime. Trenchtown was the seat of a cultural and political revolution in the 1960s and 70s, as well as home to a young Bob Marley. Riverton is an open landfill, the resting place for refuse, and its many inhabitants recycle the trash in order to make a meager living. It would be easy for the poverty, dirt, and stench of these areas to take over and hold a visitor captive. But it is not possible… the children are more convincing ambassadors for their neighborhoods. They lighten the mood with their pick up soccer games and their hula hoops. They are educated. They are playful. They know that the one truly sustainable commodity is the relationship they have with one another. It is not an easy place to grow up, and I do not pretend to understand what they endure. However, what is obvious is that they move through their days with joy and exuberance and they make it hard to think there is any neighborhood better than theirs.

The photographs in this exhibit were taken in Trenchtown and Riverton, while I accompanied staff and students from the University of the South on an outreach trip in January of 2011. The outreach program has a long connection with these neighborhoods, and as a result, I met community leaders, teachers, and families that I would not have known otherwise. In March of this year, a colleague and I will travel with eleven students from St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School to Kingston on another service trip. I plan to reconnect with some of the children I met a year ago, and I know they will again show us the beauty and joy of their world.

Proceeds from the sales of these photographs will support the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School service trip to Kingston.

Rachel Malde

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Another treat found at SFMOMA in San Francisco, my mother bought these Mexican Wedding cookies at the same cafe where we found the Mondrion Cake. Made out of chopped walnuts, these cookies are looked at as a universal holiday treat or used for other special occasions. The trip to the museum,…

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Berthe Morisot, Peasant Hanging Out The Washing, 1881