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Return to search results Soft: Works from the University CollectionAnna Torma, Red Flowers III 2006 photo: Steve Farmer The Art Gallery’s special mandate to collect textile-based art, due to the medium’s traditional association with women, is augmented in this selection by the inclusion of another material associated with domesticity—aluminum foil. All of the works have in common the tactile quality of softness. Acquired over the last decade, these works display further, unexpected affinities when seen together. Soft includes fine embroidery by Anna Torma, Colette Whiten’s beaded wall hanging, playfully performable textiles by Gary Markle and a continuously collapsing sculpture by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky. Each in its own way, the works resist structural fixity—some through their soft material and others in their surrender to gravity. OPENING RECEPTION Opens jointly with Sara Hartland-Rowe: Look to the Living on Saturday, 2 June, from 3 to 5pm. Exhibition Images Click on an image to enlarge it. |