Michelle Grabner
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
Installation view, Michelle Grabner, 291 Grand St, March 5 - April 3, 2021
James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Michelle Grabner, on view from March 5 through April 3 at 291 Grand Street. This is Grabner’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher, writer and critic over the past 30 years. The site where it all comes together is the studio. Her artmaking is driven by a distinctive value in the productivity of work and takes place outside of dominant systems.
Central to the work is process. Grabner references Penelope’s clever ploy of weaving by day and unweaving at night, which kept the suitors at bay in Homer’s Ithaca. Like Penelope, Grabner finds a generative space for mending, healing and woolgathering within her unique system of de-weaving and filling in. Like Penelope, who used the coded language of shroud-making to bring about change, Grabner uncovers new dynamic relationships through her visionary practice of repetition. With a deep attention to abstract patterns and all the metaphors they conjure, Grabner pushes the limits of compositional structures to discover the tipping point between stability and precariousness; between continuance and wondrous difference.
