{"id":45075,"date":"2018-03-07T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=45075"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:46:33","slug":"anne-strand-exhibit-currently-at-southside-gallery-through-march-31-artist-reception-thursday-march-8-at-5-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/anne-strand-exhibit-currently-at-southside-gallery-through-march-31-artist-reception-thursday-march-8-at-5-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Strand Exhibit Currently at Southside Gallery through March 31, artist reception Thursday, March 8 at 5 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHATTERED SILK:\u00a0<\/span>New Works by Anne Strand<\/span>
\nMarch 6\u201331, 2018<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nwith an artist reception\u00a0<\/span>Thursday, March 8, 5\u20138 pm<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Detail of Past and Present, Anne Strand, hanging quilt with mixed media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anne Strand<\/strong> will exhibit new mixed media collages\/paintings on canvas and mixed media collages\/paintings on vintage patchwork quilts this March at Southside Gallery<\/strong>.\u00a0 Strand describes the exhibition, titled Shattered Silk, as a tribute to \u201cicons of the feminine visage,\u201d which \u201csymbolize the artistry of the feminine eye as set forth in quilt form over the ages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

THE QUILT<\/span><\/p>\n

A quilt\u00a0<\/span>made by her great-grandmother<\/span>, which won first prize at the 1901 Tri-State Fair, inspired Strand\u2019s new body of work.\u00a0 A silk quilt, made by her grandmother for her mother, was also an inspiration for <\/span>Shattered Silk<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The silk quilt hangs in her studio.\u00a0 She describes both quilts as \u201csubtle and beautiful works of art\u201d and writes that although quilting wasn\u2019t considered fine art at the time the quilts were constructed, that the women who made them \u201cwere certainly artists.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Strand began her new series of work by collecting \u201cpre-1930 quilts and quilt fragments that were deteriorating.\u201d\u00a0 A collage artist and painter, Strand did no additional sewing or stitching to the vintage quilts or quilt fragments herself.\u00a0 Instead, she collaged the fragments onto canvases and painted and collaged directly on the hanging quilts.\u00a0 The mixed-media works include materials such as Chinese spirit paper, paint, twentieth-century weavings and \u201ceye like vintage or antique buttons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shattered Silk <\/em>marks a major evolution in Strand\u2019s work.\u00a0 Strand, best known for her meditative abstract paintings, has not only begun to explore new media, but a new narrative has emerged in her work as well.\u00a0 The meditative quality of Strand\u2019s past work carries over to the collages featured in Shattered Silk, but she also addresses feminism\u2014a timely social and political topic to say the least\u2014and the oppression of silence women often endure.\u00a0 Strand writes in her artist\u2019s statement, \u201cThis exhibition celebrates the quilt, with all its complex layering and beautiful patterning, as a metaphor for creation\u2014a visual blueprint unconsciously reminding us of the greater design. Feminine forms and faces collected from different sources, ages, races, and places are reproduced onto rag paper, lacquered and forged into the bodies of the individual works.\u00a0 By focusing on eyes with mouths separate or absent, Strand echoes the silence that often followed what was seen or experienced by women throughout the ages.\u00a0 These silenced faces underscore the theme by inviting the viewer to look beyond for rebirth beneath the brokenness or neglect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Strand is an Episcopal Chaplain and retired psychotherapist.\u00a0 She formerly lived in Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, but now lives in Selma, Alabama<\/strong>.\u00a0 Strand studied art in Paris with abstract expressionist Elaine de Kooning<\/strong>, wife of twentieth-century art icon, Willem de Kooning<\/strong>.\u00a0 She holds degrees in art, theology, and psychology, and also attended the New York Studio School<\/strong>.\u00a0 Her art has been exhibited in a number of galleries and belongs to many private and corporate collections.\u00a0 Her art has also been featured in a one-woman retrospective at the Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts<\/strong>, Columbus, Georgia.\u00a0 This is Strand\u2019s fourth exhibition at Southside Gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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