Valerie Mann
The Real Cinderella Dress and other Recent Work
October 22 – November 30, 2013
Opening Reception
Friday, November 1, 7 – 10 pm
Artist’s Statement
“I’ve been making work from re-purposed/recycled materials since… …I can’t remember – long before it was hip or cool. Long before a big deal was made about it, anyway. But I’ve been thinking lately that I should put words on why it’s important to me.
The re-purposed materials I use are significant to me on many levels.
Ethically, they are important to me because they are simply raw materials, being put back into use and not discarded. I look at the materials more for what they can be, not what they are.
Personally, it’s a way of material use that is an extension of my frugal, farm-raised heritage and it’s a mode of working I’ve always employed.
Metaphorically it’s symbolic of my personal feminist theory. Oftentimes, women are the ones left to stitch together a meal, a life, a family, a home, a culture….from scraps….scraps of food, of time, of fabric, of
psyches…”
— Valerie Mann
Selected work by other artists showing in this exhibit
October 22 – November 30, 2013
All gallery member-artists and the following visiting artists:
Nora Venturelli, Maria Ruggiero, Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez, Marlee Hoffman, Sarah Stanton, Janet Kelman, Jean Lau, Barbara Yerace, Jaye Schlesinger, and Martha Rock Keller
