Kimberley A Brown and Jess Braden – Laboring in/to Obscurity
July 31 - September 28
First Floor West Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Kimberley A Brown and Jess Braden which will be on view in the First Floor West Gallery from July 31 – September 28, 2024. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, September 28 from 5-7 pm.
About the exhibit:
“If men had babies, there would be thousands of images of the crowning”– Judy Chicago
We labor as phantoms. Our sweat, tears, and successes are invisible.
Throughout the pages of history, women are left making decisions of consequence– unrewarded for our successes or left standing in the spotlight of our failures. Our achievements are only celebrated through the involvement of male counterparts.
“It’s just women’s work.”
Like the impressionists, If we are praised, it is for quiet depictions of gentle pastimes. Because women who know their place are always cause for celebration. What glorious inactivity! Women’s work.
Our labor as women has always been modified and blunted by this moniker.
We do not need our current education as Art & Art History students to know this fact. But it reminds us of the depth of its charges.
We will be seen.
Our education is not a waste. We will explore every form, read every book, unearth the inspirations of artists past. We will try all the ways, and all the means. We won’t let the bastards grind us down.
Our histories have been re-written.
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