Recent
Exhibition
One Mellon Bank Center Gallery
Located
in the “T” station lobby of One Mellon Bank Center
SCC's off-site exhibition space is open daily through midnight.
Recent
Exhibition
One Mellon Bank Center Gallery
Located
in the “T” station lobby of One Mellon Bank Center
SCC's off-site exhibition space is open daily through midnight.
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Judy
McDermott
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August 23—October 26, 2002 | |
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Australian Fiber Artist Judy McDermott Featured at SCC’s Satellite Gallery |
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Featuring a series of quilts by artist Judy McDermott, this exhibition, Quilting Hill End, reflects on the recent history of Hill End as an artists' colony and the earlier history of the town during the gold rush of the 1860's. The exhibition, presented at the Society for Contemporary Craft's satellite gallery at One Mellon Center, continues through October 14, 2002. In 1872, at the height of the gold rush, Hill End was one of Australia's largest and richest inland settlements. It boasted a multinational population of over 15,000 people, 28 hotels, an opium den and an oyster bar. In the same year the world's largest gold specimen was discovered which made Hill End famous. The gold eventually ran out, and by the 1940s, through isolation and lack of opportunity Hill End slipped into obscurity. In the 1950's, this historically charged landscape provided a talented group of artists with the scene for a re-appraisal of traditional perceptions of Australian landscape painting. McDermott has twice been awarded residencies in the artist's cottage at Hill End. The fiber work featured in this exhibition, constructed from layers of silk and linen batting, and hand stitched with silk, linen, cotton and rayon threads, are about the landscape, the land forms, colors and vegetation of Hill End. The degenerate blueprints are reproductions of photos taken in Hill End in 1872 and "lost" until recently. McDermott employs a strong use of color and pattern in these sculptural fiber works. About her work McDermott comments, " They (the quilts) owe much to the journals and notebooks of the artists who first adopted the town. There is also a physical link between the quilts and the area. Most of the cloth was dyed using local leaves, bark, flowers, mud and rust." Born in Brisbane, Australia in 1937, McDermott has exhibited widely throughout Australia and the U.S. Her work was included in the Fiberart International 01 at SCC in fall 2001 and Quilt National in 1999. SCC’s satellite exhibition space is located in One Mellon Center and is open daily until midnight. For more information call SCC at 412/261-7003. |
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Upcoming
Exhibitions
One Mellon Bank Center Gallery |
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| The Store/The Studio | October 29—December 14, 2002 |
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| Folk
Art: A Collector's Perspective |
December 16, 2002—January 26, 2003 |
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| Open | January 31—March 9, 2003 |
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| Contemporary Jewelry and Small Metals by Students from the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology | March 14–April 27, 2003 |
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| Community Outreach Exhibition | May 2—June 22, 2003 |
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Dates subject to change. Call 412.261.7003 to confirm.