True to 2020 fashion, I "visited" an online exhibition for this quarter's experience post! I visited the Westmoreland Museum of Art located in Pennsylvania, and more specifically Sarah Tancred's exhibit "Heirloom". What originally drew me to her work was the simplicity of it, monochrome and repetitive, which reminded me of my own work. Her work focuses on the socially constructed gender role of women, and how the role has evolved over time and has been informed by several different spheres of life from advertising to everyday objects. Most of her work is sculptural, and the work exhibited at the Westmoreland is primarily cast porcelain and investigates the concept of "invisible labor" that women are responsible for around the house. She focuses on everyday objects that were specifically common around the house in the post WWII era, which I find to be very impactful. Here are a few of my favorite pieces exhibited below: After a little outside research, I learned that in order to make porcelain pieces you have to create a mold, and while Tancred's exhibit does not explicitly explain this process, you can tell that the repetitiveness in the pieces is definitely attributed to the use of a mold. I really love how simple and monochrome the work is, since the plain-ness of the work really addresses the content of the work and how meaningful and impactful actions (represented by the quantity) can melt into the background of daily life (represented by the white). Honestly, visiting a virtual exhibit was easier and more valuable than I had originally thought. It is definitely missing the impact of scale which you would better experience when visiting in person, but there is also a certain beauty to seeing the pieces captured on camera in exactly the way the artist wanted the pieces to be viewed.
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