Merge: Recent Works

Opening reception Fri., June 12, 6-10 p.m., free, exhibit through June 27, Midwives Collective, 1241 Carpenter St., second floor, midwivescollective.com.

by Brion Shreffler

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Published: Jun 9, 2009

visual art

Ranging from drawings to hand-sewn fabrics, Midwives Collective's "Merge" brings together the divergent paths of seven of its eight artist members. Curator Elizabeth J. Smith overlays hand-stitched and -dyed silks atop images of cells and tissues, the diaphanous silk providing a window to her personal evolution, while Erin Filson's series of Rorschach-esque seeped ink drawings became therapeutic for her preshow anxieties. "She's going outside of her safety zone," says Smith of Filson's unusual work. "It's very brave of her — bravery, of course, being something necessary of every artist."

 

The Truth Fairy
Joseph O'Neill
Kaleidoscope
Caricature Assassination
Head over Heels
Some Enchanted Evening
The Lepage Project
Free Association
Art + Soul Food
Slightly Irregular
Urban Convergence