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Recycled, Wrapped and Sewn
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
June 18th, 2010 - July 30th, 2010
"Courtney Puckett’s assemblages are made from discarded fabrics, bits of wire and wood, string, buttons, thread, wrapping paper, paint and crayons. The artist’s use of recycled materials is contemporary. Her method of stitching, wrapping, and braiding is ancient.
'Recycled, Wrapped and Sewn’ is an exhibition of abstract constructions, painterly and fragile, delicately poised on the wall or in space. The works incorporate dramatic color and marry unexpected materials- bed sheets and duct tape. While making oblique references to functional forms; fans, ropes, and ladders. Puckett’s objects are unique new inventions...Tiny stitches and detailed woven intervals deliver us into the deeper surfaces and nuanced planes of the compositions.
The literal layering of materials becomes symbolic and posits ideas of dreams and memory and the juxtaposition of worlds both physical and ethereal. Our eye seeks the background through the open spaces in the grid. When access is not allowed, an in and out rhythm or visual breathing occurs.
Puckett has assimilated cast off materials to produce a sustainable art form. Her use of non-precious materials and everyday artifacts lends the work an honest immediacy. Deconstructed fabrics and found objects are combined and re-connected. Fragments of former identities become metaphors in new incarnations." - Jackie Otto-Miller, Curator
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