Three Exhibition @ SECCA on Nov. 3, 2011

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Overview of SECCA Exhibitions Opening on Nov. 3, 2011

 Margarita Cabrera

September 15, 2011 – Feb. 19, 2012

Margarita Cabrera is a Mexican-American artist, activist and organizer whose objects and activities address timely issues related to border relations, labor practices and immigration. Turning crafts and their manufacture into the vehicle for socio-political consideration, Cabrera orchestrates the creation of soft, vinyl sculptures resembling backpacks, bicycles, potted plants, domestic appliances, pianos, and full-sized automobiles.

Lilly McElroy

November 3, 2011 – January 29, 2012

Lilly McElroy is a young, Arizona-born artist who playfully, but poignantly moves between poles of aggression and intimacy. Drawing upon Western clichés, autobiography and the rituals of urban life, she stages public performances that confront the many tangled dimensions of human interaction.  

Out of Fashion

November 3, 2011 – March 4, 2012

The word “fashion” is synonymous with trends, fads, immediacy and a fleeting exercise of life in the moment. Yet the very ebb and flow of fashion’s passing fancy, an accumulation of lives, stories and materials collects into a multi-faceted history.

The eclipse of a once-thriving textile industry in North Carolina speaks to the volatility of market-driven fashion/s. Rather than keeping up with the latest styles (and their continuing demands of consumerism, turnover and excess) there is a movement amongst N.C. based  artists and designers that turns instead to refuge, time and duration.

Beyond the runway and haute couture, this exhibition mines the histories of fashion as vessels of time, nature, and memory.

 

The exhibition will include artists and designers from across N.C., including those who have moved to our state, as well as those from NC now living abroad.

 

 

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