First up is recent member and multi-media artist Jan Parker whose evocative installation is elegant in its simplicity but demanding of contemplation for all of its tangled complexity. Prefabricated Happiness: A Self Portrait is a 7 lb 8 oz ball of blood-red yarn, cradled between a smooth swath of the same yarn and a shiny, new rocking chair. The piece plays with notions of motherhood and manufacturing and perhaps teases out the parallels embedded in our conception of both. The image, both gentle and jarring, contains a psychological heaviness. Even the word, “yarn” is redolent of a yearning. The fabric from certain angles appears like a pregnant belly and is indeed pregnant with the viewer’s own projections of domestic bliss - acquired, avoided or sadly lost.
Ooh-La-La opening reception is Sunday, October 9th
By Rachel Brown
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