Title of Event: Driftpoints: The Gleaners by Maggie Cardelùs
Date & Time of Event: Thursday, November 14th, 5:15 pm
Location of Event: The Holmes Gallery
Type of event: Exhibition
I really enjoyed this exhibition, as I love how Maggie Cardelùs combined different traditions to show a new perspective, by using needlepoint to reinvent a famous traditional painting by Jean François de Millet. I feel that she demonstrates evolving historical perspectives and ongoing transformation of women very well by using an art form that is often made with the labor of anonymous women. She also demonstrates different perspectives by adapting this image many different times with different needlepoint techniques. What I found most interesting was that in her installation she included hanging a bag of the yarn used in the needle point, she is able to leave a physical trail of the history of her work. Cardelùs is able to make a technique identified usually with a “craft” and make it into traditional art to prove the flexibility of materials and humans to change.