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MMMM will be up until March 2012 at The Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York City.

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photo by Marie Gagnon

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Solstenen -- a year-long project chronicling the process of learning about and the making of a new body of creative work -- begins with a 7-week open-studio residency at the Seattle multidisciplinary art center, The Project Room.
July 14 – September, 2011

I will begin the first stitch of this project at TPR, inviting public participation through hands-on workshops, open studio hours, and other happenings – including interactive activities with guest artists during August 2011.
Inspired by an amalgamation of literary works, and exploring themes of weight and physical burden as external symbols of internal self-transformation -- identity metamorphosing into the environmental -- I’ll be crocheting together wearable mantels of stones, and ‘hair shirts’ of hundreds of hand-sewn feathers.

Spring 2012, I’ll journey to a 5-week residency in Iceland with my husband, artist Paul Margolis, where we’ll use the massive garments to immerse ourselves in the radically dramatic landscape, explore our themes, creating works of eco-installation, performance, photography and video. Our work will also be to learn about Icelandic mythology, clay and pottery, Icelandic wool and fiber arts, and how this history of traditional arts funnels into Icelandic contemporary art practices.

Solstenen renders visible the meandering exploratory process involved in creating fully-realized artworks that is often unseen, but a fertile ground that must be turned. For my artistic practice, that fertile ground is ‘auto-didactic learning, sharing, influence and confluence’. An overlapping strata of concepts layering and growing together like a kombucha mother, I’ll document the alluvial fan of making, researching and connections formed with other makers/thinkers/tinkerers, through in-depth interviews of guest artists both here in Seattle and in Iceland.

The project will book-end with a culminating installation at The Project Room in Fall 2012, as part of TPR’s year-long curatorial question, “Why Do We Make Things.”

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a process performative, multi-platform project by Mandy Greer

coming soon to The Project Room, Seattle, beginning July 14th, 2011

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Jan. 14 - Feb 4th, 2011 at Roq La Rue Gallery. www.roqlarue.com.

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About “Honey and Lightening”

“Honey and Lightening” is a show of installation chambers, sculptures of talismanic birds and a series of staged photographs all revolving around examining the mercurial nature of human desire. The substances honey and lightening both have literary, mythical and archetypal references to the occurrence and evolution of desire and it’s fading. I see one as the slow ooze of pleasure and the other as the dangerous, uncontrollable and inexplicably instant occurrence of magnetism between two bodies.

The installation also includes a gathering of talismanic birds made of leather and more than a thousand individually cut and sewn silk and satin feathers, representing my imminent needs but using imagery used by a variety of ancient peoples and cultures — a desire for protection, for a guide, and harbingers of happiness in the form of a raptors. In photographs, close friends and my husband play out roles that tie into the everyday events of their lives, but represented as re-interpreted gods and goddesses such as Hecate, Demeter and the Green Man. The photos speak to themes of cross-roads, the double pull of isolation vs. community, a power buried in the beginnings of motherhood and the visceral erotic pull of the earth, volatile but buried like a dormant volcano.

Sponsored in part by by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs CityArtist Grant and 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax Revenue.

Model: Sara Kennedy (and unborn Max)
Photo/imaging: Mandy Greer

Jan. 14 - Feb 4th, 2011 at Roq La Rue Gallery. www.roqlarue.com.

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About “Honey and Lightening”

“Honey and Lightening” is a show of installation chambers, sculptures of talismanic birds and a series of staged photographs all revolving around examining the mercurial nature of human desire. The substances honey and lightening both have literary, mythical and archetypal references to the occurrence and evolution of desire and it’s fading. I see one as the slow ooze of pleasure and the other as the dangerous, uncontrollable and inexplicably instant occurrence of magnetism between two bodies.

The installation also includes a gathering of talismanic birds made of leather and more than a thousand individually cut and sewn silk and satin feathers, representing my imminent needs but using imagery used by a variety of ancient peoples and cultures — a desire for protection, for a guide, and harbingers of happiness in the form of a raptors. In photographs, close friends and my husband play out roles that tie into the everyday events of their lives, but represented as re-interpreted gods and goddesses such as Hecate, Demeter and the Green Man. The photos speak to themes of cross-roads, the double pull of isolation vs. community, a power buried in the beginnings of motherhood and the visceral erotic pull of the earth, volatile but buried like a dormant volcano.

Sponsored in part by by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs CityArtist Grant and 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax Revenue.

Model: Paul Margolis
Photo/imaging/costume: Mandy Greer