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Ghosts and Monsters
New Work by Sarah Gilbert
July 5 - 28, 2007
First Thursday Opening Reception: July 5, 5-8 PM
Hours: Friday & Saturday 12-5 PM
Or by appointment: info@shiftstudio.org
Shift Collaborative Studio is pleased to present Ghosts
and Monsters, new work by Sarah Gilbert. The exhibition’s
6 object-based works explore the blurring boundaries between people and
objects, the physical and the textual. Works include blown glass, embroidered
panels, and an installation of found objects and their shadows.
Ghosts and Monsters examines the shared experience
of people and objects as they are both continuously subjected to the merciless
index of exchangeability. The resulting objects are both beautiful and
monstrous: bizarre fabrications of disjointed parts- a realm where text,
image, object, and body all co-mingle as equals.
Sarah Gilbert’s work investigates the sensuous form
of the object in its immediate capacity as materialized human history.
Drawing on the histories of craft and industry, she examines how objects
mediate social experience and record human hopes and anxieties. Sarah
holds a BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in
Art Semiotics from Brown University.
Top: Sarah Gilbert, dinner with 12, detail,
2006, glass, silver, mdf
Bottom: Sarah Gilbert, drink me 1, detail, 2007,
glass
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