A Woolen Thanks: Marie Watt at Greg Kucera Gallery

Image source: http://www.gregkucera.com/watt.htm

Marie Watt's work contains its own thanks, in the stories of the donated wool blankets she uses to create her fabric, wood, and metal sculptures.

In her recent exhibit at SAM (remember this?), Watt asked for donations of wool blankets. The artist got them, many of them, each blanket tagged with its origin.

On view in her first solo exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery, there is a swooping tower of wool blankets. Tags hang off this floor-to-ceiling sculpture, with notes as to the previous lives of each folded rectangle. Read the dangling tags for narratives of 80 year old, moth-eaten, cherished bed coverings. Each note seems to acknowledge family, and some give thanks to the artist for taking an age-destroyed heirloom and making use of it.


Also on view, several strong portraits in cut and stitched wool (including the above piece, inspired by a Johnny Cash song), and watercolor. 

For more about the exhibit, visit the gallery site, here.

At Greg Kucera Gallery through December 24.