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| Title: | Alison Gates: Points of Departure | | Date: | 4/28/2023 - 7/23/2023 | | Address: | James Watrous Gallery, Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street, Madison, WI 53703 | | Location: | Madison, WI | | Hours: | Thursday - Fri day: 12:00pm - 6:00pm • Saturday: 11:00am - 5:00pm • Sunday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm | | Cost/Cover: | free | | Web Page: | https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/gallery/alison-gates-points ... | | Contact Info: | 608.733.6633 |
| Details: | Alison Gates works primarily in textiles and mixed media, using knitting and embroidery to explore issues of gender, climate change, and the way language, cultural traditions, and our experience of place shift over time and in different contexts. Adding subtly embroidered words to printed textiles, she creates a quiet disturbance, a whisper of new meaning that shifts the pattern in unexpected directions. Gates' recent woven paper maps create a similar shift in perspective, folding disparate geographies into new relationships that suggest the changeable nature of official borders. This exhibition will also include her Global Warming series of wool bikinis, hand-knitted using traditional patterns from northern Europe. These beautifully made bikinis use humor to raise a serious question. As the climate warms, what will happen to these knitting traditions, which are such important markers of cultural identity? Will they disappear like other traditions and skills that no longer suit the local climate, or evolve to suit the changing conditions?
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| Event is: | Every Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | | Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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