The Opening Reception for Leigh Anne Chambers: Shape Shifters and Spirit Guides with Christi Harris: Lachrymose

You are cordially invited to attend: The Opening Reception for Leigh Anne Chambers: Shape Shifters and Spirit Guides with Christi Harris: Lachrymose

Leigh Anne Chambers Statement: My studio practice is largely driven by materials. I am drawn to the immediacy of supplies from the hardware store like liquid rubber and spray paint. These work in tandem with imagery created from composite drawings of comics and coloring books. While these pieces do not have an explicit narrative, they develop a language informed by contemporary culture.

Christi Harris Statement for Lachrymose : This work explores the intersection of grieving and “emotional labor” made tangible in embroidered phrases from condolence letters from a late 19th-century Virginia family. Harris discovered the letters at a flea market, and during the pandemic she spent time painstakingly embroidering words or phrases from the letters onto handkerchiefs in the style of the writer’s handwriting. Hundreds of these embroidered receptacles for grief and tears will be suspended around the viewer in the Microgallery