Out of Fashion

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November 3, 2011 – March 4, 2012

Organized by SECCA, Curated by Steven Matijcio

The word “fashion” is synonymous with trends, fads, immediacy and a fleeting exercise of life in the moment. Yet in the very ebb and flow of fashion’s passing fancy, an accumulation of lives, stories and materials collects into an ambivalent history. The eclipse of a once-thriving textile industry in North Carolina speaks to the volatility of market-driven fashion/s, spurring new, regenerative practices from mountains to the coast. Rather than keeping up with the latest fashions (and their continuing demands of consumerism, turnover and excess) there is a movement amongst local artists and designers that turns instead to refuge, time and duration. Their work derives out of fashion, but is outside fashion’s perpetual amnesia. Beyond the runway, this exhibition mines the histories of fashion as vessels of time, nature, and memory.

Out of Fashion Artists:

Lauren Frances Adams
Common Seam Collective (Gabrielle Duggan; Meghan Holliday; Liz Morrison; Amy Quinn; Shelley Smith)
Stephanie Liner
Precious Lovell
Katie Martin
Libby O’Bryan
R. Brooke Priddy
Talena Sanders
Mary Tuma
Jessie Vogel
Jan-Ru Wan

 

SECCA and Out of Fashion Curator Steven Matijcio was interviewed WFDD’s Triad Arts Up Close.  Click the links below to listen to that interview.

WFDD Interview with Steven Matijcio – Part 1


WFDD Interview with Steven Matijcio – Part 2

 

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