Marie Watt: "RECEIVER" at the C.N. Gorman Museum

Marie Watt
RECEIVER
January 7th, 2014 – March 14, 2014
C.N. Gorman Museum
University of California, Davis

Sewing Circle, Wednesday, Feburary 19th, 2014
Artist Talk, Thursday, February 20th, 2014

RECEIVER is a solo-exhibition of a new body of work by Marie Watt (Seneca). Through a series of proposed sewing circles, Watt intends to create 408 linear feet of entirely hand stitched tapestries. The number 408 is symbolic: it marks the height of the spire at the One World Trade Center/Freedom Tower, as well as the longest Haudenosaunee longhouse on archeological record. A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Watt is interested in Iroquois Ironworker’s significant contribution to building Manhattan’s sky scrapers and sees parallels in the dense community and multi-family living units that historic long houses and modern sky cities have in common. Her ambitious sewing endeavor seeks to record and evoke authentic neighborly connections that occur in urban settings and tribal communities.

The show runs from January 7th, 2014 – March 14, 2014 with a Sewing Circle, Wednesday, Feburary 19th, 2014 and an Artist Talk, Thursday, February 20th, 2014.