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Painting done with wide palette marks of a light skinned woman with short curly black hair reclining on a couch. The couch is ornate with rounded back, wood outlines, and quilted floral pattern cloth. The girl is wearing a pink-red short dress with her eyes closed and her legs are fading into the cloth of the couch.
August 31-December 29, 2019

Dressed

To be dressed is to cover, adorn, or envelop the body in the guise we present to the outside world. To be dressed can be an exercise in simplicity, or an elaborate over-the-top performance. This exhibition presents the work of six contemporary artists working in a range of media whose works reference the intricacies of covering the body, the meaning held in garments, and the gendering of handwork. Broadly addressing materials, imagery, iconography, and memory, each artist experiments with the fluidity of form while acknowledging gendered constrictions placed on the body. Exhibiting artists include Catherine Bertulli, Jodi Colella, Merill Comeau, Mia Cross, Nancy Grace Horton, and Marky Kauffmann.
Gallery: Weinberg and Litowitz Galleries
Dates: August 31-December 29, 2019
Participating artists: Catherine Bertulli, Jodi Colella, Merill Comeau, Mia Cross, Nancy Grace Horton, Marky Kauffmann
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Photograph of a foil dress done in shades of blues with large angular sleeves and a narrow pleated long skirt. The dress is floating in a white room.
Catherine Bertulli, Blue Wedding Dress, Aluminum foil, paper fasteners, Aniline dye, and polyurethane glaze
Photograph with a sold rusty orange background an a dress form with short sleeves and a wide A-line skirt in a kaleidoscope pattern of bright yellow and peach-orange.
Marky Kauffmann, Princess, Chemigram
Small sculpture figure of an ornate chair with red cushion where the legs and one arm of a light skinned woman in a pencil skirt is seen. Her entire body is a ball of twine and threads.
Jodi Colella, Primped, Assorted threads, bisque figurine
Zoomed in picture of a painting made with wide palette strokes of a woman with light skin and short curly black hair reclining on an ornate couch with wood outlines and a floral quilted fabric. The woman has her eyes closed and one hand up on the back of the couch. She is wearing a pink-red short dress and her legs are fading into the couch.
Mia Cross, Another Girl Who Sat on the Couch Too Long , 2019, Oil on canvas
Photograph of a wall installation made of black old fabric taken from various clothes. They are laid out roughly in a diamond shape.
Merill Comeau, Women’s Work is Never Done , 2012-2019, Fabric, paint, thread
Painting of a young light skinned woman and long brown hair in a black dress made of sketched house figures holding a long hair orange cat. She is in front of a black background, a floral pattern in oranges and pinks, and a deep grey boarder on the exterior.
Mia Cross, Homebody, Oil on canvas
Photograph of a floating sleeveless dress outline with a repeating photo image of a pair of feat stepping on an electric stovetop.
Nancy Grace Horton, Some Like It Hot, Photograph on fabric
Dramatic hat on a stand, made to look like a sunflower with long petals in soft yellow and light blue-green made of various fabrics, and a black center made of various beads.
Jodi Colella, Wallflower, Mixed media
Blue fabric with bleached Barbie Doll figures in various falling poses.
Nancy Grace Horton, Cinderella Falling, Cyanotype on fabric
Photograph of a foil dress done in shades of blues with large angular sleeves and a narrow pleated long skirt. The dress is floating in a white room.
Catherine Bertulli
Blue Wedding Dress , Aluminum foil, paper fasteners, Aniline dye, and polyurethane glaze
Photograph with a sold rusty orange background an a dress form with short sleeves and a wide A-line skirt in a kaleidoscope pattern of bright yellow and peach-orange.
Marky Kauffmann
Princess , Chemigram
Small sculpture figure of an ornate chair with red cushion where the legs and one arm of a light skinned woman in a pencil skirt is seen. Her entire body is a ball of twine and threads.
Jodi Colella
Primped , Assorted threads, bisque figurine
Zoomed in picture of a painting made with wide palette strokes of a woman with light skin and short curly black hair reclining on an ornate couch with wood outlines and a floral quilted fabric. The woman has her eyes closed and one hand up on the back of the couch. She is wearing a pink-red short dress and her legs are fading into the couch.
Mia Cross
Another Girl Who Sat on the Couch Too Long , 2019, Oil on canvas

Museum Purchase, 2020.66

Photograph of a wall installation made of black old fabric taken from various clothes. They are laid out roughly in a diamond shape.
Merill Comeau
Women’s Work is Never Done , 2012-2019, Fabric, paint, thread

Gift of the Artist, 2020.4.1-.93

Painting of a young light skinned woman and long brown hair in a black dress made of sketched house figures holding a long hair orange cat. She is in front of a black background, a floral pattern in oranges and pinks, and a deep grey boarder on the exterior.
Mia Cross
Homebody , Oil on canvas
Photograph of a floating sleeveless dress outline with a repeating photo image of a pair of feat stepping on an electric stovetop.
Nancy Grace Horton
Some Like It Hot , Photograph on fabric
Dramatic hat on a stand, made to look like a sunflower with long petals in soft yellow and light blue-green made of various fabrics, and a black center made of various beads.
Jodi Colella
Wallflower , Mixed media
Blue fabric with bleached Barbie Doll figures in various falling poses.
Nancy Grace Horton
Cinderella Falling , Cyanotype on fabric
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