The Re Institute

Sayzie Carr, Kingsley Parker, Kate Hamilton, Deena Lebow

June 1st to July 13th

Opening June 1st 4pm to 7pm

Followed by a potluck

Sayzie Carr, Kingsley Parker, Kate Hamilton, Deena Lebow

Plus work by Ryan Frank and Daniel Phillips

The Re Institute is pleased to present work by Sayzie Carr, Kingsley Parker, Kate Hamilton, and Deena Lebow. These four artists are involved in exploring patterns in nature. Where each artist looks out from is as important as what they collectively look at. Each is drawn to the fabric that gives body to their work. The things they make their art with are the foundation of their exploration.

Words about each artist:

	Kingsley Parker Venerable, Vulnerable, Irrelevant, Wrathful Kinderhook, NY 2019, 58.5 x 74 inches
Kingsley Parker’s work is about the environment. At Reinstitute he is exhibiting a new body of work titled A World of Hurt: Our Forests. He’s been observing and photographing trees in different locations. He has painted these trees on old, paint-spattered canvas drop cloths that he has sewn and patched to fit each image. He has made these trees paintings large so we appreciate their beauty and scale.
	Kate Hamilton Big Shirt 2012 sailcloth aluminum wire thread 10.5' high
Kate Hamilton, a few things that this work, stitch by stitch, may or may not consider: The absurdity of clothes un-tethered to the human scale, and the human work involved in making them. Who the hell are we, and why do we cover ourselves in fabric sewn into particular shapes? Why that button, that cuff, that curve, that slope, that opening place, that mandatory closure? Their transient nature: while these look big now, each folds down to no bigger than 20” x 20”. And, unanchored, they would blow away.
	Sayzie Carr Web 2019 fabric, embroidery thread, indigo dye 40x30
Sayzie Carr’s “Webs, Threads, and Beds” work happens at the intersection of art and textiles. For decades Sayzie has had two parallel careers working with textiles and painting. They have merged into a body of work with this exhibition. Using dying techniques, painting, sewing, and crochet she makes assemblages, draped quilts and “fabric paintings”. Sayzie “connects the dots” with an exploration of new applications using old world techniques.
	Deena Lebow Blue Ventricle 2019 Embroidery Floss on Linen 8” x 20”
Deene Lebow is a New York based artist with a background in design and fashion. Her current work is hand embroidery on commercially mass-produced garment patterns. By hand-stitching the paper pattern onto linen, she subverts the original intention of the pattern. The pieces are mounted in double-sided glass or scrolls as though artifacts from an anthropological study. While her work references feminist artists who sought to elevate craft to fine art, Lebow feels freed by a newer generation that seamlessly and joyfully integrate the two. These artists use craft techniques in a way that is neither ironic nor political. The designs Lebow embroiders feature multiple overlapping garment patterns targeted for home-sewers. The color and line of Lebow’s stitch work through the tracing paper and linen abstracts the original intent while still referencing the body.