THE PATTERN ROOM, a solo exhibition by resident, Kirstin Lamb
Opening Reception: Friday October 2nd, 7-10pm
On view 10/2-10/31
Visit the Gallery Sundays, 12-4PM
Show Statement:
Hand-painted props overtake a wall with pattern and sweetness. Each canvas evokes sweater patterns and embroideries. I reintroduce the traditionally feminine lap-crafted originals as less diminutive cherished objects and more a billboard for the feeling of a handmade and intimate craft, here restaged in paint. The girlish whimsy of pinks and saccharine decorative marks gives way to sardonic text and lonely pinups and portraits. I want to both overwhelm and overfeed with sweetness and also quietly chastise that impulse and its attendant guilt. I’m hoping for a kind of stifling, claustrophobic saccharine space, intimating that maturing into my gendered role was not all I’d hoped for or all I was promised..
Artist Bio:
Kirstin became obsessed with classical still life and notions of stacking and heaping during her final year of graduate study in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. She began her studies as a literature student at Brown University, graduating in 2001 with Bachelors degrees in both Literature in English and Visual Art. Kirstin’s work has been shown in venues across the country, notably the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, NY, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery in New York, the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, The Watermill Center Benefit in Watermill, NY, Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY, the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, the Art Gallery of Calgary in Canada, Kate Singleton’s online project Buy Some Damn Art, Darger HQ of Lincoln, Nebraska, Room 83 Spring in Watertown, MA, and The Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI. Kirstin's work is currently represented by Darger HQ gallery and she also has prints available with both Little Paper Planes and Company.
Opening Reception: Friday October 2nd, 7-10pm
On view 10/2-10/31
Visit the Gallery Sundays, 12-4PM
Show Statement:
Hand-painted props overtake a wall with pattern and sweetness. Each canvas evokes sweater patterns and embroideries. I reintroduce the traditionally feminine lap-crafted originals as less diminutive cherished objects and more a billboard for the feeling of a handmade and intimate craft, here restaged in paint. The girlish whimsy of pinks and saccharine decorative marks gives way to sardonic text and lonely pinups and portraits. I want to both overwhelm and overfeed with sweetness and also quietly chastise that impulse and its attendant guilt. I’m hoping for a kind of stifling, claustrophobic saccharine space, intimating that maturing into my gendered role was not all I’d hoped for or all I was promised..
Artist Bio:
Kirstin became obsessed with classical still life and notions of stacking and heaping during her final year of graduate study in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. She began her studies as a literature student at Brown University, graduating in 2001 with Bachelors degrees in both Literature in English and Visual Art. Kirstin’s work has been shown in venues across the country, notably the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, NY, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery in New York, the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, The Watermill Center Benefit in Watermill, NY, Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY, the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, the Art Gallery of Calgary in Canada, Kate Singleton’s online project Buy Some Damn Art, Darger HQ of Lincoln, Nebraska, Room 83 Spring in Watertown, MA, and The Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI. Kirstin's work is currently represented by Darger HQ gallery and she also has prints available with both Little Paper Planes and Company.
