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STUFFED<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

June 15 – September 15, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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BU Art Galleries presented STUFFED<\/em>\u00a0to celebrate artists working at the nexus of quilting, painting, sculpture, and installation. The group exhibition was on view in summer 2023 at BU\u2019s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, and was co-organized by guest curators Mallory A. Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Both historical and grounded in a contemporary context, the exhibition offers works from Khadija Aziz, Natalie Baxter, Amelia Briggs, Maria A. Guzm\u00e1n Capron, L\u2019Merchie Frazier, Jai Hart, BSisters Khaleghi, Anne Libby, Meg Lipke, Elizabeth Murray, Rose Nestler, Courtney Stock, and Nastassja E. Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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\u201c<\/strong>Filling. Batting. Liner. Wadding. Padding. Bushing. Swaddle\u2026 there are many ways to name the material that brings life to a blanket or fills a comfortable seat,\u201d explains co-curators Mallory A. Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington. \u201cA 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,\u201d they add, \u201cand 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,\u00a0STUFFED\u00a0<\/em>makes room for softness to stretch beyond neutral material.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BU Art Galleries Presents\u00a0STUFFED<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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,\u00a0STUFFED\u00a0<\/em>makes room for softness to stretch beyond neutral material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Co-curators Mallory A. Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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