Current show
CATHERINE SIECK
EATING HONEYED POMAGRANTE SEEDS
On Show Dec 6th 2019- January 21st 2020
Opening Party Dec 6th 5-8 pm
Catherine Sieck is an artist and farmer who makes work informed by folk art traditions which accompany ritual, devotion, and storytelling. Her narrative cut-paper pieces celebrate the moments of beauty and grief which continually pull us apart and remake us—the elemental, the erotic, the mundane, the familial and the unfamiliar. She seeks to make work imbued with the vitality of the cycles of death and rebirth.
“Eating Honeyed Pomegranates” is the body of work made in the wake of her mom’s death. About 17 moons, held as a spiral, not a clean linear arc of healing from a loss. The time, and likewise the work, moves between deeply personal, visceral reckoning with death and panning out to encompass more of an exploration of ancestral death practices & regeneration myths and folklore. The name “Eating Honeyed Pomegranate Seeds” comes from the Persephone/ Demeter story, as the honeyed pomegranate seeds that she ingests in the underworld are what gives her the capacity to move between this world and the other.
EATING HONEYED POMAGRANTE SEEDS
On Show Dec 6th 2019- January 21st 2020
Opening Party Dec 6th 5-8 pm
Catherine Sieck is an artist and farmer who makes work informed by folk art traditions which accompany ritual, devotion, and storytelling. Her narrative cut-paper pieces celebrate the moments of beauty and grief which continually pull us apart and remake us—the elemental, the erotic, the mundane, the familial and the unfamiliar. She seeks to make work imbued with the vitality of the cycles of death and rebirth.
“Eating Honeyed Pomegranates” is the body of work made in the wake of her mom’s death. About 17 moons, held as a spiral, not a clean linear arc of healing from a loss. The time, and likewise the work, moves between deeply personal, visceral reckoning with death and panning out to encompass more of an exploration of ancestral death practices & regeneration myths and folklore. The name “Eating Honeyed Pomegranate Seeds” comes from the Persephone/ Demeter story, as the honeyed pomegranate seeds that she ingests in the underworld are what gives her the capacity to move between this world and the other.
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