Julia Roshkow: Keep Me in The Loop

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Keep Me in the Loop, a mixed media installation by Julia Roshkow in which the loop potholder serves as the organizing principle for a body of work that is a color study, an exploration of grid-based geometries, an experiment in reproducing the same image in multiple media, and, finally, a deeply nostalgic visual tribute to an American icon. Keep Me in the Loop is a story told in five chapters. Since Roshkow is an art historian by training, Chapter 1 is wall text telling the history of the loop potholder. Chapter 2 consists of vintage potholder loom packaging dating from the 1930s through the 1970s, another historical reference. Chapter 3 is actual woven loop potholders arranged in trios with three different patterns in eight color stories for a total of 24 unique designs. Chapter 4 is composed of Roshkow’s signature crystal artworks. These works are the crystal equivalent of the woven potholders and are also organized as trios. Chapter 5 is a collection of 24 giclee prints based on the grids used for the crystal trios but larger in scale. Hung together, these prints form a larger, or macro grid in contrast to the smaller, or micro grids of of the individual prints themselves. This macro grid can be viewed as a Cartesian plane, with the x-axis representing color and the y-axis representing pattern.