Mindy Solomon is pleased to present a dual exhibition of California based artists Brittany Mojo and Terri Friedman. Both artists endeavor to reclaim domestic arts and in doing so find personal voice in creation and challenge art world hierarchies.
Mojo utilizes traditional craft materials and repetitive processes to negotiate functional objects and their relationship to women’s work. Her pieces are often made from materials that leave evidence of the hand, confronting sculpture and craft, fine art and design, and the nuanced concepts within.
Friedman is attracted to the ageless and straightforward technology of a floor loom. She approaches the loom like a painter allowing color, fibers, words, and abstract gesture to guide her. Her warps are often as important as the weft with stripes or plaid embedded in each piece. Borrowing from other crafts, black lines allude to the solder of stained glass and disparate patterns side by side are reminders of common quilting techniques.
With an emphasis on skills like knitting or sewing, both Mojo and Friedman build strength, patience, and identity, to turn traditionally “feminine” hobbies into powerful acts of self-definition.
