The Ellis Gallery: Closing Reception: "Rooted," a group exhibition curated by Lisa Jaye Young

Join us for the closing reception of Rooted, a group exhibition curated by Lisa Jaye Young, and featuring artists Cheryl Capezzuti, Susan Fuller, N. Masani Landfair, Anissa Mack, and Samantha Mack on Friday, September 4, 5 - 9PM in conjunction with Starland First Fridays. The kitchen table is often the place from which artistic consciousness emerges, and the home with its textures, smells, objects, photographs, cast-offs, legacies, and detritus is central to burgeoning creative awareness. Anchored in the thought of the familial or a “maternal inscription,”Rooted explores how materials both ground us in a past and offer a starting point for new memories.The five artists presented in Rooted diverge in their unrelated variation: familial objects, photo-based collage, the legacies of leftover materials, domestic spaces as loaded with memory or as guiding a freshly considered skill or interpretation. A familial or maternal inscription is embroidered like an under-stitch lending structure,… View Source