Abnormal Growth

Judy Marquis

 

Feb 7th - 28th, 2009

Opening Reception Feb.7th 1-4pm

 

 

The work preoccupies itself with themes revolving around the body – the body as deconstructed, dehumanized and objectified. In particular, these stitched fabrics may call to mind notions of sexuality, alienation, and trauma. These pieces speak to a very specific trauma that associates with the abject and abnormal growth of disease. Hence, they focus on an examination of the body in a state of estrangement through disturbing loss. The forms of these synthetic materials may suggest a simulation of the disembodied – organic fragments that have flown from the envelope in which they were originally housed, now laid out and made bare. Yet they are presented here as a playful gift of introspection, dressed in light and delivered up as some not-so-sacred sacrifice after all.