Solo show at Northern-Southern runs through Feb. 18
gallery Downtown, topology itself is quivering in delight. Yes, Donya Stockton – the multitalented woman behind legendary club venues Beerland, Rio Rita, King Bee, and more – has a new exhibition of her avant-garde weaving on display there, and topology is being stretched and twisted to its real-life limits in the most compelling ways.That’s right: Artist. Not craftsperson – which is never a slur, but only a distinction – but artist.
Donya Stockton has brought the mundane to the celestial, bent topology to her creative pleasure, and revealed a small universe of new possibilities in the world of weaving “That was inspired by living in Oaxaca,” the artist tells us. “There are a bunch of trees here that have these weird seed pods, and I’d see them as I was walking around and I’d think, 'I bet I could do something cool with those!’ So I started obsessively collecting them from off the ground whenever I’d find them. The really long flat ones are from the Framboyán tree.
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