Fashion: A Taut Thread
Fashion and personal adornment can be a vehicle for expressing both individual and community identity. It can be practical, artful, luxurious, fun, or transgressive. But it can also highlight income disparity, fuel overconsumption and create pressure to acquire the latest looks or achieve unattainable beauty ideals. The tension between the tactile and expressive enjoyment of textures, fabrics, adornment and the social complexity of fashion is not new, but the contemporary proliferation of both images and goods heightens the divide.
In six capsule exhibitions, five artists use contemporary fashion imagery to explore these issues. Kat Honey’s large scale collages question what lies below the surface and what is kept hidden. Anthony Gebrehiwot collaborates with models and stylists to create photographs that investigate the social dynamics of communities. Judith Geher’s expressive figurative paintings examine the visual language of fashion and advertising through the intimate lens of self-representation. Lora Moore’s photographs are inspired by her love of fashion as well as the environmental impact of mass production, fast fashion and consumerism. Carrie Chisholm’s mixed media works explore aspects of desire and fulfillment by reinterpreting representations of beauty and affluence in the media.
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Carrie Chisholm, Anthony Gebrehiwot, Judith Geher, Kat Honey, Lora Moore, Lee PetrieAccessibility
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