Ties That Bind
Museum of Pocket Art
The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday, March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., featuring artist Elaine Bradford.
Bradford is a collector. She mines thrift and antique stores to find discarded pieces of people’s lives. The collectibles, which viewers might find on a shelf in their house, are transformed. For the Museum of Pocket Art exhibition she is embroidering vintage photographs.The found family photos have been repurposed. The pieces in the exhibition become physical representations of mental relationships, real or imagined. The extensions of embroidery represent hopes, thoughts and fears that can bind people together, or tear them apart. The fibers are literal portrayals of being wrapped up in another person, and the distance or closeness that can be created between them. There is a lot about longing and unrequited love.
https://mopaonline.com/exhibitions/ties-that-bind/
http://contemporaryartmonth.com/event/museum-pocket-art-mopa-presents-elaine-bradford/
The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday, March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., featuring artist Elaine Bradford.
Bradford is a collector. She mines thrift and antique stores to find discarded pieces of people’s lives. The collectibles, which viewers might find on a shelf in their house, are transformed. For the Museum of Pocket Art exhibition she is embroidering vintage photographs.The found family photos have been repurposed. The pieces in the exhibition become physical representations of mental relationships, real or imagined. The extensions of embroidery represent hopes, thoughts and fears that can bind people together, or tear them apart. The fibers are literal portrayals of being wrapped up in another person, and the distance or closeness that can be created between them. There is a lot about longing and unrequited love.
https://mopaonline.com/exhibitions/ties-that-bind/
http://contemporaryartmonth.com/event/museum-pocket-art-mopa-presents-elaine-bradford/
