Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker & Meyerhoff Galleries
1303 Mount Royal Avenue
Fox Building
Baltimore, MD 21217
Warren Seeling: Textile per se Exhibition
This winter, MICA will mount Warren Seelig: Textile per se, a retrospective of textile-based constructions by Rockland, Maine-based fiber artist Warren Seelig. Seelig, who is teaching an interdisciplinary drawing course at the College during the fall semester, has insisted on continuously defining and redefining the qualities that are unique to textile and especially to a kind of abstraction rooted in repetitive processes.<p>The exhibition, which will include works produced by ceramics, fiber, interdisciplinary sculpture, and general fine arts majors in Seelig's class, features selections from Seelig's three main bodies of work. These include hand-woven and manipulated wall mounted works of the 1970s and early '80s and the skeletal/skin "spoke and wheel" sculptures from the '80s and '90s. MICA will also reveal Seelig's most recent series of works that examine matter and light, Shadowfields.<p>"This is the first opportunity to acknowledge and examine Seelig's major contributions in defining the field of fiber in one space," says Susie Brandt, chair of MICA's fiber department and curator of the exhibition. "As well, it is equally satisfying to finally see such a large part of his oeuvre."<p>In addition to transforming MICA's galleries with Seelig's idiosyncratic hybrid forms, the exhibition includes the artist's preparatory works - models, samples, and sketches - to provide a glimpse into his working process. <p>A reception will be held Friday, December 4, 5-7 pm. Artist Talk: Thursday, February 11, 7 pm, Decker Gallery, Fox Building<p>Image credit: Warren Seelig, Shadowfield/Colored Light (detail), stainless steel, florescent Plexiglas, Collection Reading Public Museum, 2007, photo by Jack Ramsdale.
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