Cathy Breslaw & Kerry Zimmerman - Crossing Paths
May 11 to May 27
Opening reception May 11, 7 pm to 11 pm
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Cathy Breslaw's work experiments with dissimilar manufactured materials, manipulating them in unfamiliar combinations. Traveling as far as Taiwan in search for her materials, Breslaw's pieces reinvent the materials and serve as a metaphor for the perpetual morphing of global culture from the integration of political, religious, social, and economic ideas. Her work includes large-scale wall and floor pieces constructed from plastic mesh. Her pieces fuse aspects of painting, weaving, craft, fashion, and sculpture and explore issues of femininity, beauty, and cross-cultural boundaries. Elements of color, line, texture, and pattern figure prominently producing an end result of an undeniably feminine quality. Having lived in five cities in the past seventeen years, Kerry Zimmerman uses photography to orient herself physically and mentally. Moving to a city and knowing no one requires Zimmerman to rely on her camera as a means of navigation and bearing. Her current series grew from her 2005 move to St. Louis and has expanded over time. Her images were shot with a Holga, a toy camera producing a limited plane of focus and intense vignetting. These features of the Holga images mirror her own experiences as a newcomer to our City.
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