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Art lovers will get a chance to explore “gravity-defying” world of Jennifer Zackin this February at East Stroudsburg University.
ESU’s Madelon Powers Gallery will present Transfiguration: Woven Forms by Zackin in February, starting with a reception slated for 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
Transfiguration: Woven Forms presents new sculptural works created by Zackin during the pandemic. In this body of work, Zackin takes a deeper dive into her Vortex Weavings. Mathematically speaking, a vortex is a three-dimensional ring or doughnut shaped-object around which energy can flow. As it spins, a vortex forms through its central axis. This pattern can be found throughout the universe in hurricanes, galaxies, and atoms.
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The artist’s ongoing Vortex works are woven with various materials — often cotton rope — on large cube-shaped looms.
For the current exhibition, Zackin has created Phoenix, a 44-inch by 44-inch loom onto which she has woven a fabric made from her own old clothing, piecing together bits and scraps to create a new, cohesive, multidimensional form.
The exhibit will feature Zackin’s 7 Chairs series, which utilizes late-20th Century lawn furniture and tractor seat stools as armatures for “imaginary 3-dimensional landscapes”. The landscapes are woven from materials such as colorful rope and scraps of fabric to craft gravity-defying, “underwater-like” worlds that incorporate mountain ranges, escape hatches and refuges.
Visitors to the gallery, which is free and open to the public, are invited to bring an article of clothing to be woven into a community Vortex project. Over the course of the exhibition, through the interweaving of parts of our personal history, a unique collective fabric will begin to emerge.
For the last 22 years, Zackin has been integrating public art, sculpture, installation, performance,…