Last week we Installed Brette Gabel's Piece, Tapestry at the window of Gallery 1313 for this series I curated, pretty nice!
Come Play with Us, Danny
JULY 6th to 31st, 2011
Tapestry by Brette Gabel
Curated by Xenia Benivolski
Brette Gabel is a not so recent graduate of the University of Regina. While avoiding schoolwork Brette began embroidering, quilting and watching horror movies. Following school, Brette moved to Toronto where she participated in the Toronto School of Art’s Independent Studio Program. After which she became a contributing member to the White House Studio. Currently Brette is researching farming accidents, taxidermy and organizing alternative community interventions. Brette’s work strives to connect love, fear, heartache and the grotesque with craft and social interventions.
Brette Gabel’s obsession with classic horror movies is explored through a series of quilted wall hangings. By softening the most frightening scenes Gabel invites the viewer to stare the monster head on. Handmade textiles connote warmth, safety, and the domestic sphere – when combined with uncomfortable subject matter, a productive tension is created: the work both comforts and provokes with empathetic humour.
In other news, I was helping Jon and Amy a little with the movie they're making
Buggy babes
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