Woven Threads: The Migration of Myths & Metaphors

Alison Saar

Alison Saar uses her art to tell stories. Her sculptures and graphic work explores the different narratives that radiate outward from the African Diaspora.  The history of racism in America, African mythology and the many cultural expressions that arose from the various worlds that Africans were taken to. Myths from the Caribbean, South America and North America are expressed in powerful works that draw stylistically from Folk Art, German Expressionism and African Sculpture. Her work speaks in a powerful and clear language stories that need to be told.   

Fatemeh Burnes

Fatemeh Burnes paints in a fluid improvisational approach where intuition and emotion flow from her heart and hand in an unfiltered rush. She then discovers passages that suggest architecture, Islamic patterns and figures from which she creates images. These images reflect elements from her personal history or issues about which she is passionate; these paintings are a form of catharsis and self-discovery.

Iva Gueroguieva

In Iva Gueroguieva’s new paintings she is physically positioning herself within the work, composing painted and stained pieces of muslin; she seeks to articulate the geometry of the body within the overall piece. The paintings traverse a range of emotions from the joy of paintings to deeper currents of the complexity of how to position oneself in a chaotic world. The works have a quality of precarity, expressing vulnerability in the face of an unpredictable and capricious existence.

Mei Xian Qiu
Mei Xian Qui is an artist who’s elaborately composed and staged photographs can be seen as arrested moments in vast narratives of the historical forces that shape identity and belief. Her art represents a quicksilver world of transformation and renewal, where one must adapt to the shifting currents of history. The work explores the existential and spiritual aspects of metamorphosis and rebirth.