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"Virtual Art Salon hosted by Casey Dalene, Guild Hall Curatorial Assistant, Registrar and Lewis B Cullman Associate for Museum Education
Featuring:
Claire Watson, Artist
Artist and Water Mill, NY resident, Claire Watson, will join Curatorial Assistant, Casey Dalene, in conversation on Zoom for Guild Hall’s third Virtual Art Salon Series Thursday, May 28th, 4pm.
Claire’s work in the current 82nd Artist Members Exhibition in the Guild Hall Museum was a focus of Casey’s Virtual Gallery tour where she selected 7 works out of 435, to discuss on camera. Casey was drawn to Claire’s work because there is so much to be said.
At first, when you are confronted with one of Claire’s creations, you are struck by the minimal abstract shapes, like that of Ellsworth Kelly; a study of color and positive and negative shapes. But as you approach and explore more closely you become aware of the surface; flesh-like with scratches, scars, and smells of perfume or tobacco. The abstract shapes now representational of a common fashion pattern used in the creation of a leather garment. The minimal works reveal themselves to the viewer, born from a place of violence and life lived. Claire’s process of reconfiguring, reshaping, stitching, and stretching these pieces of used leather renders them accessible. Let’s examine this with Claire and find out how she manipulates her way to the finished product. What can this tell us about ourselves and how we relate to her work? How does this mirror our current challenges? As usual, art will show us the way."
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