Join Weaving Data featured artist Shelley Socolofsky for a material conversation on slow looking, slow making, and the healing properties of weaving and touch. With an art practice grounded in storytelling, myth remaking, and ritual, Socolofsky’s gallery talk invites a deeper interrogation of the binary. Specifically, where weaving, a process of information storage through a binary system of interlocking threads mirroring the 0’s and 1’s of computer programming, becomes alternately understood as a refusion; an act of resistance, a gesture of reclaiming and linking. This process reformulates the binary into a relationship of reciprocity through the merging of high/ low culture, labored work/ pleasure, trauma/ healing, science and the supernatural.
This program is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting will be provided.*
Exhibition, education, and outreach programs have been made possible by a grant from The Ford Family Foundation.
This exhibition is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust.
*Accessibility initiatives have been made possible by a grant from the Richard & Helen Phillips Charitable Fund to the JSMA Community Access Fund.
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Image: Shelley Socolofsky, Blood Moon over Arctic Shelf Melt (Lunar Double), 2022, cotton, silk, polyester, metal thread mounted to panel, 74 x 42 inches, © Shelley Socolofsky, Courtesy of the artist