{"id":105177,"date":"2020-10-16T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=105177"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:05:08","slug":"ground-southside-gallery-showcases-new-work-by-cathy-fussell-and-blair-hobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ground-southside-gallery-showcases-new-work-by-cathy-fussell-and-blair-hobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"GROUND: Southside Gallery Showcases New Work by Cathy Fussell and Blair Hobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this exhibition, Cathy Fussell and I explore the word GROUND, both as a noun and as a verb.\u00a0 The word fits 2020, a year where the world\u2019s population is grounded (sent to time-out) during COVID-19.\u00a0 On a personal level, I\u2019ve felt ground to bits by my mother\u2019s death and other challenges during the spring and summer of 2020. Those of us who are healthy feel fortunate to have the ground still beneath our feet and are grateful for feeling steady and well grounded. I\u2019ve pondered metaphors about animals of the ground (cicadas, boll weevils, snakes, assassin bugs), as well as odd pandemic stories of lonely eels and drunk elephants. I\u2019m inspired by Cathy\u2019s work that often celebrates the ground\u2019s quilted terrain through geographical renderings and river meanderings.\u00a0 Her work reminds me that the ground also is where we plant our seeds, and what grows from death and decay is often beautiful, is often a meadow.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair Hobbs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quilts are about history and art and politics and stories and patience and beauty and community and economics and place and expression and freedom and transition and family and warmth \u2013 and love. And they\u2019re feminized and devalued. All that is why I\u2019m so into quilts and quiltmaking. \u00a0
While many fiber artists today create works that are overtly political, I prefer to make art that is celebratory. I celebrate the landscape, literature, the vast and yet minute complexities of this world we inhabit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Fussell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about the artists:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Fussell<\/strong>
A fiber artist for more than 50 years, Cathy Fussell maintains a studio in Columbus, Georgia, where she specializes in making art quilts. In terms of theme and subject matter, Cathy\u2019s work tends to fall into three general categories:  Geography, Southern literature, and American modernism.

Public collections holding Cathy\u2019s work include The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Koch Collection, New York, New York (twelve pieces), and the Fulton County (Atlanta) Public Art Collection (two pieces).

In 2016 Cathy was commissioned by The Congressional Club, Washington, DC, to make a quilt for First Lady Michelle Obama. The result is \u201cApollo Splashdown Revisited \u2013 Homage to Alma Woodsey Thomas,\u201d which was presented to Mrs. Obama at The Congressional Club\u2019s Annual First Lady\u2019s Luncheon, Washington, DC, May 12, 2016. The work is in the (forthcoming) Barack Obama Presidential Library Collection, Chicago, Illinois.

Cathy\u2019s work has been exhibited in numerous juried or curated exhibitions and is held in many private collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair Hobbs<\/strong>
Blair Hobbs creates visual narratives with plants, animals, and the human body. She renders these images in drawings, acrylic paints, colored pencils, ink, mulberry papers, oil pastels, fabric scraps, sequins, glitter, thread, gold dust, duct tape, candy wrappers, and broken Christmas tree balls.\u00a0 Hobbs has shown in galleries across the south, and her work is privately collected across the country.\u00a0 She is a Senior Lecturer and teaches undergraduate poetry at the University of Mississippi.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artwork will be displayed October 13 – November 7th.
Artists’ Reception (by reservation) Friday, October 16, 5 – 7 PM
Please contact the gallery to make a reservation.
662.234.9090<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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