Hyper-Utility
March 21st to April 15th, 2016
“Hyper-Utility”, featuring the work of Cori Champagne, Sande French-Stockwell, Jane Gordon and Amy Joy Hosterman, considers environmental futures, survival, and how our species will adapt. The show simultaneously focuses on perspectives of optimism for the future while exploring the darker side of over-use. Why wait for the future to happen when we can predict it now?
Cori Champagne creates wearable sculpture, directly relating the body to its environment through garments that transform into living spaces. Her work speaks of self-sustainability, cooperative living, and an intimate connection to environment, while providing a fresh and sometimes facetious look at down-to-earth function. She teaches at Boston Architectural College and lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Jane Gordon creates ceramic installations which explore despair, hope, and survival in a time of social and environmental uncertainty, and the often humorous futility of our actions. She lives in Albuquerque, teaches at the University of New Mexico, and sells organic produce at the local Co-op. (image top: Replacement System)
Sande French-Stockwell builds her sculptures using slabs to enable a loose, immediate fantasy image, and by using bright, exciting underglazes, she evokes a sense of the magic and hope for the post-apocalyptic human. French-Stockwell has a long history of exploring 3D work in all its materials, and finds that clay best expresses her vision for this incarnation. (image right)
Amy Joy Hosterman digs and hand-processes her own clay, creating miniature, illustrative sculpture about labor, resources, and ironic relationships between humans, the environment, and commercial products. Amy lives in Loveland, Colorado and is the Program Director for the national non-profit arts organization, ArtShape Mammoth.
ONE Arts is proud to work with ArtShape Mammoth to curate this exhibition for the Living and Learning Gallery at UVM.
(text adapted from the curator’s press materials)
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