Sat 8/8 @ 5-8PM
SHED Projects, which specializes in highly conceptualized work, offers its first full exhibition of its season when it opens Tracing Our Pattern on Saturday August 8.
It features work by the granddaughter/grandmother duo of New Orleans-based Cora Rose Nimtz and her grandmother Linda “Mimi” Dyken, based on textile work and hand quilting. “The exhibition,” they tell us, “considers inheritance not as something fixed, but as a living process—one stitched through family, memory, grief, care, and the quiet labor of making by hand.”
Tracing Our Pattern continues SHED’s interest in work that addresses heritage, legacy and family, and the meaning of places and what occurs in them.
“The exhibition reflects on what is inherited, what is transformed, and what it means to carry knowledge—through stories, rituals, and the patient work of making—into another generation,” they say.
The exhibition features both Dyken’s hand quilting and Nimtz’s contemporary textile work, which incorporates embroidery, appliqué, and hand stitching into quilting, drawing attention to their connections and how they’ve evolved. “Together, the works of Nimtz and Dyken reveal that every stitch carries the possibility of memory while every new pattern begins with those who came before,” they say.
The show opens with a free, public reception on Saturday August 8 and will be on view through September 19.