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Zoe Schlacter: Darn

September 26, 2020 @ 8:00 am - November 14, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

Free

Transformer proudly presents Queer Threads: CURIOUS SPACES – an exhibition collaboration exploring how artists are remixing fiber and textile traditions to explore contemporary LGBTQ+ identities and ideas.

Organized by Transformer and Queer Threads curator John Chaich, Queer Threads: CURIOUS SPACES features solo artist installations by emerging queer artists at Transformer and The Corner at Whitman-Walker. Additional online programming is presented in partnership with guest artists, The George Washington University Museum & The Textile Museum, and American University’s Fine Art Department & The American University Museum. Queer Threads: CURIOUS SPACES is supported in part by an award Transformer received from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Zoe Schlacter
Darn
September 26 – November 14, 2020
Transformer

1404 P Street NW

Visible like a diorama through Transformer’s storefront window, Zoe Schlacter invites us into an exuberant, stylized, textured world. In this site-specific installation, the Brooklyn-based, Nashville-raised artist embraces everyday craft materials, reimagines traditional textile mechanisms, and celebrates the queer, creative impulse. Yarns extend from hand-made, wall-mounted, loom sculptures as paper mâché sculptures and fabric paintings dart across the floor. Referencing the playfulness of Memphis design and plasticity of objects of art and pleasure, Schlacter employs the sharpness of graphic design to wink at the perception of sexually graphic content. Through negative and positive space, they explore ideas of (w)holeness, visibility, and mending. Trans/forming the gallery by deconstructing the language of weaving, Schlacter embraces the potentiality of queer identity, style, and connection through fiber, form, and space.

Details

Start:
September 26, 2020 @ 8:00 am
End:
November 14, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/exhibition-queer-threads-curious-spaces

Organizer

Transformer
Phone:
202-483-1102
Email:
info@transformerdc.org
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Other

Artists
Zoe Schlacter
Curators
John Chaich
Artwork Medium
Sculpture

Venue

Transformer
1404 P St NW
Washington DC, DC 20005 United States
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Phone:
202-483-1102
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