Image: Erin M. Riley, History 5, 2011, Handwoven wool tapestry, 17 x 41 inches. Recalibrations/Fiber Philadelphia, March 31 - April 28,2012 Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition in its front gallery space, Recalibrations featuring works by Bruce Feldman, Cassie Jones, Erin M. Riley, and Solange Roberdeau. Recalibrations runs from March 31 - April 28, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artists Saturday, March 31, 4 - 6 pm. Recalibrations is a group exhibition that looks at a small cross section of contemporary practices that intersect textiles and fiber arts with an investigation in broader aesthetic and material concerns. The exhibition explores how artists expand or maintain these aesthetic and material parameters. Bruce Feldman's work crosses into the materiality of photography, video, and various readymade fibers/textiles on which Feldman projects various landscape images that challenge the notion that photography is a non-moving index. Cassie Jones' fiber pieces combine sculpture and painting but continue the formal and content concerns of modern painting. Erin M. Riley weaves tapestries that maintain their traditional material use while re-introducing narrative back into the process that depicts excessive social relaltions between young adults. Solange Roberdeau uses video to renegotiate the relationship between the hand and the technological.

Gross McCleaf Gallery 127 S. Sixteenth Street Philadelphia, PA. 19102 215-665-8138 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 5

Lecture flyer with a piece from my Nudes series on it

Nearing the end of the 48" wide warp

The artblog posted about the show I am in at Space 1026.

I will be giving a lecture about my work to the College of the Fine Arts students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha today at 7pm.

I got some pretty big news yesterday and I will be happy to post about it once everything is official!

Packing and photographing

Packing the tapestries up!

Nudes 6 on the side of MassArt's Benefit Art Auction invite.

I am always interested in learning more about the beast I travel around with, my loom. I weave on a Macomber Ad-A-Harness 48" wide B-5, I made it a 2 harness but it can fit up to 8. Macomber Looms is currently located in York, Maine making the looms in house all except for the heddles. All Macombers have a metal plate on the side with a model number and a serial number but mine says Saugus, Mass not York, Maine so I have asked Sarah Haskell the sales rep for Macomber looms for more information.

Her most recent post A history lesson gives the details to the different locations. The information in her post says the company moved from Saugus, MA in 1977, so my loom is at least 34 years old. I hope it lasts another 34, I spent most of yesterday sewing a cover for it from grill covers and tarps so it survives the 1300 mile trip back to Philadelphia.

Passed Out 3, 2011, 36" x 24", handwoven wool tapestry

I have purchased my plane ticket to San Francisco so that I can attend my April 14th opening at Guerrero Gallery. It has been a few years since I have been to the bay area so I will eat some delicious food and see some of my favorite faces. It's March which means I am in my final weeks at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (I started my 8th tapestry yesterday), and hopefully will hear back from the many applications I have out in the world as to where I am off to next.

Leaving Bemis March 27th I am headed east to see my works in Optical Fiber at Space 1026 and attend the openings for Recalibrations at Gross McCleaf Gallery and Tropico Post-Apocalyptic at Extra Extra in Philadelphia, PA and at the 23rd Annual Benefit Art Auction at MassArt in Boston, MA where I went to undergrad and learned to weave. April is a very busy month, a residency might also be in the works but things haven't been confirmed, I have my fingers crossed for some longer term residency programs so that I can settle in somewhere and maybe get a life! Either way I will be spending some time in Philadelphia where I have a studio for a bit and figuring things out along the way.