List of Participants

GASP space:
Nicole Antebi
Elaine Bay
Dan Borelli
Halsey Burgund
Nancy Davies
Gina Dawson
Samantha Fields
Corinn Flaherty
Julie Gabrielli
Leah Gauthier
Ellen George
Marisa Jahn
Yota Kariotis
Kelly Kerrigan
Kate Kunath
Aimee LaPorte
Jae Rhim Lee
Georgina Lewis
Leila Lee Mitchell
Maggie Orth
Elaine Reichek
Alyce Santoro
Jonathan Santos
Heather Shaw
Michael Sheridan
Gemma Shusterman
Luanne Stovall
MikeWiggins

Virtual space:
Rachel Abrams
Leslie Atik
Caroline Bagenal
Kelly Cobb
Teresa Cole
Patricia Dahlman
Rebecca Davidson
Ruxandra Guidi
Alysia Kaplan
Cat Mazza
Claudia Middendorf
Alison Safford
Olja Stipanovic
Otto von Busch
Heather Watkins
Debra Weisberg
Sarah Wentworth
Julie Wills
Alice Vogler

The Thread Counts Project
Coordinated by Luanne Stovall and Leila Lee Mitchell
www.threadcountsproject.com

January 27 - March 11, 2006

Press Preview & Artist Talk: February 10 5-7pm (Talk begins at 6pm)

Stitch & Bitch Session: February 15, 7-9pm (RSVP by to GASP)

Public Reception: February 24 5-8pm

Words and phrases spun from our deeply rooted human experience with sewing, mending, and weaving permeate our conversations and testify to the enduring necessity of the act. Thread demonstrates the power of unity through diversity. Though it functions as a single unit, the filament is a composite – woven together from a vast range of materials extracted from the bounty of the earth – organic, synthetic, animal, vegetable, mineral. By joining forces with other threads, a vast range of new materials is produced to expand our scope of possibility. These powerful new materials are multifaceted and operate in uncanny ways. Ultimately, a network of ingenious body extensions threads us into a vascular web of global communications systems, binding memories of our material past to the continually unfolding future.

The Thread Counts Project, coordinated by Luanne Stovall and Leila Lee Mitchell for Gallery Artists Studio Projects, is designed to investigate the binding nature of thread and to recognize its dual role as both a noun and a verb. Through this lens, thread is experienced as an interconnective dynamic tissue that operates at the core of our daily lives. For this exhibition, we issued a call for entries and asked for proposals to be submitted that respond to the act of threading/weaving through various personal and cultural lenses. All media were considered. Proposals were chosen from a wide range of local, national, and international entries and include the work of artists, designers, and architects. The exhibition will extend into two venues, a physical gallery space at GASP and a virtual gallery space at www.threadcountsproject.com.

Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, is partnering with the Thread Counts Project through the calendar of Wednesday evening film screenings at the Carpenter Center for the Spring semester 2006 from 2/9 – 5/4/06.

Contact:
contact@threadcountsproject.com
   
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