Shifting Patterns is a group exhibition featuring works by four contemporary artists: Elizabeth Alexander (MA), Eliza Au (TX), Daisy Patton (MA), and Adero Willard (NY/MA). Collectively, these artists’ works invite us to reimagine how we connect with our own stories, subjectivity, and mutual experience, and to consider the ways in which our past informs our present. The brilliance of each artist in relation to their own craft is evident in their thoughtful and engaging works, which encourage us to explore our own narratives and perspectives.

Using languages of repetition, alteration, detail, and color the artists challenge inherent signifiers and create new stories within their various mediums. Whether through cast or found objects, installation, ceramic sculpture, decorative motif, or historical portrait photography, the suggestion of memory is embedded in the material choices of each artist’s work.

The exhibition raises important questions about our personal and cultural associations with objects, visual motifs, and representations. How do we sift through layers of historical, collective and personal recollections to define our present? How might the narratives we embody be re-presented, re-layered, or extracted to reveal the unexpected? By exploring these themes, Shifting Patterns offers a thought-provoking experience for all visitors.

Date: September 21 to November 15, 2023.

Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday: 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 21 at 6:00 PM

Venue:
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery
CT State Manchester
SBM Charitable Foundation Building
Great Path, Manchester, CT

For more information, please contact:
Maura O’Connor
860-512-2692
[email protected]

or Visit https://www.manchestercc.edu/hans-weiss-newspace/.