Fiber Artists-in-Residence, Mark Newport and Jane Lackey, Open Exhibition at Simone de Sousa
Mark Newport, Mend 21, 2021, Embroidery and mending in wool, 40 x 28 inches.
Former Fiber Artists-in-Residence Mark Newport (2007-2023) and Jane Lackey (1997-2007) open a new two-person exhibition, Correspondence, at Simone de Sousa Gallery at their Cass Corridor location in Detroit, MI on June 24, 2023.
Correspondence, between two sets of actions–stitching and drawing, between the ways two bodies (people) process and translate, memory, emotion, and experience. Jane Lackey and Mark Newport use drawing and stitching, repetitive actions to interrupt order and structure. Whether tender or insistent, tense or calm their actions produce lines that accumulate, connect, and transform their respective substrates, cloth, and paper. Cloth and paper speak of unseen networks of plants and culture, skin and community, fragility and protection. The ways we transform them reflect our respective drives to plum the mysterious ways we attempt to understand our experiences and our world.
Mark Newport and Jane Lackey: Correspondence will be on view through August 12, 2023. An opening reception will take place on June 24, 2023 from 6 to 8pm.
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