Jennifer Terzian Gallery is pleased to present Off the Grid, a two person exhibition featuring works by Carly Glovinski and Cory Emma Siegler. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 24 from 3pm-5pm. The show is on view through June 28.

Read as an expression, Off the Grid positions the work in a space of craft sensibility and domestic themes. Both Glovinski and Siegler’s work is closely tied to the idea of the grid as a generative framework- for patterning, quilt making, book layouts – a guiding process that allows for each artist to lean into or break away from. Off the Grid considers the visions of two artists who are invested in labor-intensive methods of creating while exploring the rhythms of repetitive processes. Glovinski and Siegler portray the material world through a unique vocabulary of personal observation, resourcefulness and tenderness involved with making by hand.

Carly Glovinski makes work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and placemaking. Rooted in observations of her surrounding environment, and a curiosity about natural and human-made systems, her work embraces a slip in perception and employs a wide range of materials. The elements of time and place are often embedded, and the rhythms of repetitive processes, either invented or borrowed, are a guide.

She received her BFA from Boston University, is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, and has had solo exhibitions at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA and Colby Museum of Art, Maine. She has been awarded residencies at Kenyon College (Ohio), Surf Point (Maine) and Canterbury Shaker Village, and grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Blanche Colman Trust. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has been published or reviewed in publications including, Two Coats of Paint, Colossal, New American Paintings, ArtMaze Magazine, and Hyperallergic, and is held in prominent collections such as Farnsworth Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic, and Fidelity Corporation.

Operating between the worlds of art, design, & craft, Cory Emma Siegler’s practice explores the tactility, functionality, and inherent potential of textiles. With a reverence for technical skill and the physicality of handiwork, Siegler creates patchwork-pieced quilted objects out of old fabrics, clothing and linens.

Used in domestic spaces–on a bed or tabletop, or wrapped around a body– these items served a purpose both quotidian and intimate. In a continued act of intimacy, Siegler extends the life of this material by breaking it down into color, shape and texture, then reconfiguring it back together piece by piece. She uses the grid as an underlying structure to create new visual and physical patterns and connections. Fusing together principles of geometric abstraction, ornamentation, and traditions of quiltmaking, hard-edged compositions are softened by the drape of the cloth and imbued with a material history and memory. Pattern and form are unified to create harmonious constructions that have the familiarity of a quilt, while also existing as something transformed, playing upon conventional modes of perception and expectation.

Cory Emma Siegler is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY who makes textile works, drawings and artists’ books. Cory earned a BFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2008. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY), MONO Practice Gallery (Baltimore, MD), 80WSE at NYU Gallery (New York, NY), Bard Graduate Center Gallery (New York, NY), and Printed Matter, Inc. (New York, NY). She has been an exhibitor at the NY Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1, Queens, NY), the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair (Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT), and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (Brooklyn, NY) and her artists’ books are held in the permanent collections of the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, among others. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), and Eileen Fisher Making Space (Brooklyn, NY).

Jennifer Terzian Gallery
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Jennifer Terzian Gallery