PHASES – a late summertime collaboration between Crystal Gregory and Alexa Williams.
Residency: August 23-September 11, 2016
Opening: Thursday, August 25, 6-8pm
Closing: Sunday, September 11, 4-6pm
In four phases Alexa Williams and Crystal Gregory will use Ground Floor Gallery as a performative platform for their collaborative project. During their residency in the space, the artists will use the architecture of the gallery to support a site specific floor to ceiling loom, dye with turmeric, and use powdered graphite and white sand to cast the woven textile in concrete. The final pieces will hang on the gallery walls, completing the arc of their residency together.
PHASE 1: DRESSING THE LOOM, hundreds of cotton strands stretching from the gallery’s floor to ceiling
PHASE 2: DYEING, onsite solar dyeing in turmeric baths
PHASE 3: WEAVING, site specific spatial weaving
PHASE 4: CASTING, imbedding the woven textile into a poured concrete picture plane
Thursday, August 25, 6-8pm: The Opening (the installation of the 8ft X 8ft loom)
September 11, 4-6pm: Closing Party: (The finished pieces hanging in a traditional gallery format)
Ground Floor Gallery 343 5th St, Brooklyn, New York 11215