Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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Michelle Grabner Untitled(Red)
2017-2018 Oil on burlap 92 x 61 cm
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Michelle Grabner Untitled
2017-2018 Oil on burlap 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm
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Michelle Grabner Untitled
2017-2018 Oil on burlap 50.8 x 40.6 cm
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			Gana Art is pleased to announce the opening of Wisconsin-based artist Michelle Grabner’s solo exhibition in collaboration with Efremidis Gallery. Grabner is also known for her multifaceted career as an artist, curator, and educator who worked as a co-curator of 2014 Whitney Biennial and a chair at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Over the past 30 years, the artist has created patterned-based work which encompasses a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. Focusing on all facets of her predictable routine, everyday life, and surrounding environment, the artist goes through a unique process of artmaking. Grabner would often pull-out threads of burlap, a prosaic textile with simple warp and weft weave. She finds an opportunity for meditation and mending within this cyclical process of de-weaving and filling all the deformed negative space back in. Grabner’s iconic gingham paintings in this show reference the suburban motifs such as gingham tablecloth and curtains that evokes the domestic nostalgia of America. By applying a simple and familiar grid patterns through a labor-intensive, repetitive process, the artist celebrates the value and productivity of unseen labor. The show, Pattern, uncovers one of the most referential and familiar pattern fields into abstract language.

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