“Sunflowers & Graffiti’d Sky in the Garden State” at MAM
For in excess of two many years, Jersey City-dependent WOOLPUNK® has been fashioning art that is at the moment visually fascinating and socially stirring. Working mostly with recycled textiles, found objects, pictures, and text-dependent imagery, she addresses such challenges as setting endangerment, financial inequality and homelessness. Within just the past calendar year, her abundant and inventive creations have manufactured their way into a assorted selection of web pages which include the Entire world Trade Center, Bergdorf Goodman, and FIT’s Art and Style and design Gallery.
At this time on see at the Montclair Art Museum is WOOLPUNK®’s vastly amazing Sunflowers & Graffiti’d Sky in the Garden State. Based on a photograph of a group backyard in Jersey Town, the final production, 30 toes broad x 13 feet very long, features recycled textiles on an embroidered image. All of the resources applied — clothes, fabric scraps and assorted textiles — have been donated in reaction to the artist’s open get in touch with to the MAM neighborhood. And anything at all that wasn’t applied was then donated to the Salvation Military.
Sunflowers & Graffiti’d Sky in the Backyard garden State brilliantly delivers interest to landfill waste that is comprised mainly of outfits whilst questioning our penchant for the latest vogue trends. Showcased earlier mentioned is the artist in entrance of her operate. Quite a few close-ups from Sunflowers & Graffiti’d Sky observe:
A compact phase
The graffiti’d sky — which while attractive, also “reminds us of the air-polluted sunsets”
Much more sunflowers
A nearer search at the details
Sunflowers & Graffiti’d Sky in the Backyard garden State stays on perspective as a result of August 6, 2023. Found at 3 S Mountain Ave in Montclair, NJ, the Montclair Art Museum is open Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Photos 1-4, Lois Stavsky 5, Courtesy of the artist
