Wed 9/16 @ 5:30-7:30PM
HEDGE Gallery at 78th Street Studios’ is currently featuring the work of two well-known area artists, who’ve already exhibited at the gallery extensively.
Liz Maugans’ has titled her show of print-based collages I Am an Old Woman Playlist, while Rebecca Cross’s group of self-portraits is titles A Library of Shelves. Both artists explore what it means to be an older woman with an accumulation of of past experiences and memories.
Maugans’ work involves layering literal bits and pieces of her past life, some dating back to college, to created her layered collages that mingle past and present to visually explore where she’s at in her life now. A Library of Selves is as a chronological story, formed with dyed silk fabrics on wooden boards with figures surfacing during the artist’s improvisatory process exploring the beauty in impermanence and imperfections.
The show will be on view for another week but this Wednesday September 16 you can stop in the gallery, hear the artists talk about the work and talk with them about it. It’s free and open to all.