Holding Thoughts

When:
Thursday, Apr 03, 2025 11:00a -
Sunday, May 04, 2025 5:00p

Where:
Boston Sculptors Gallery
486 Harrison Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 92118

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
kstraka Keri Straka

Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Innovation, Shows

Event website:
www.bostonsculptors.com

Virginia Mahoney’s Holding Thoughts features an installation of delicate and colorful vessel-like forms that weave life and memory into reclaimed netted produce packaging. The work belies Mahoney’s complex approach: She first cuts up old paintings into strips, then writes or stitches excerpts from her sketchbooks on them, and finally weaves the strips into the netting material, discovering new forms in the process. Labor-intensive, meditative techniques and strong materiality are ever-present in Mahoney’s work. Words expose fears and doubts, but the very act of writing or stitching them represents an act of affirmation. These contemplative moments of remembering, honoring, and preserving aid the artist in processing uncertainty, change, and ruminations on aging. Mahoney is holding on to where she has been, asserting and affirming power, self, mark, and agency.

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