STUFFED

Both historical and grounded in a contemporary context, the exhibition offers works from Khadija Aziz, Natalie Baxter, Amelia Briggs, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, L’Merchie Frazier, Jai Hart, BSisters Khaleghi, Anne Libby, Meg Lipke, Elizabeth Murray, Rose Nestler, Courtney Stock, and Nastassja E. Swift.

Together, these twelve artists survey the use of stuffing as a way to embrace new approaches to personal and communal experiences. STUFFED presents these artists together for the first time.

“Filling. Batting. Liner. Wadding. Padding. Bushing. Swaddle… there are many ways to name the material that brings life to a blanket or fills a comfortable seat,” explains co-curators Mallory A. Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington. “A quilt reflects the collision of painting and technology. Portraits of people and charismatic objects emerge from padded surfaces. Wool gives shape to imaginative reflections on identity. The curve of an unstructured edge conjures architecture. This exhibition examines the volumes that swell, and the possibilities presented within those distensions,” they add, “and though reflecting movements associated with Soft Sculpture, Craft, and other pliable materials similarly historicized, the artists presented here make in ways that defy category. Offering, beguiling, and encouraging new ways for art to exist in space, STUFFED makes room for softness to stretch beyond neutral material.”

BU Art Galleries Presents STUFFED

This exhibition examines the volumes that swell, and the possibilities presented within those distensions. Offering, beguiling, and encouraging new ways for art to exist in space, STUFFED makes room for softness to stretch beyond neutral material.

– Co-curators Mallory A. Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington

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