current show
KEEPING HOUSE - Veronica Ceci
7/10/20- 9/6/20
Veronica Ceci’s work is an inquiry into tactile beauty and societal ugliness in the life of a queer femme working as a maid. Cleaning and art making both use tools and potions to change the perception of objects and surfaces. The artist manipulates devices used in the work of cleaning to remove their use value and transform them into objects worthy of careful consideration. In reducing the presence of the implements of cleaning to golden shapes, drawn lines and rectangular abstractions, the essential elements of functional design are presented with new context. As the figure interacts with these manipulated objects the matter of gendered hierarchical relationships to physical labor is exposed. The exaggeration of curves, emphasis on textures, and use of reflective materials moves these formerly invisible connections into the realm of hypervisible. Invoking the precise repetition and stamina honed over decades as a Master Printer, Ceci reveals parallels between high art and what is mislabeled as unskilled labor.
7/10/20- 9/6/20
Veronica Ceci’s work is an inquiry into tactile beauty and societal ugliness in the life of a queer femme working as a maid. Cleaning and art making both use tools and potions to change the perception of objects and surfaces. The artist manipulates devices used in the work of cleaning to remove their use value and transform them into objects worthy of careful consideration. In reducing the presence of the implements of cleaning to golden shapes, drawn lines and rectangular abstractions, the essential elements of functional design are presented with new context. As the figure interacts with these manipulated objects the matter of gendered hierarchical relationships to physical labor is exposed. The exaggeration of curves, emphasis on textures, and use of reflective materials moves these formerly invisible connections into the realm of hypervisible. Invoking the precise repetition and stamina honed over decades as a Master Printer, Ceci reveals parallels between high art and what is mislabeled as unskilled labor.
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