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Kristen Miller | Day and Night
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PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present Day and Night, a solo exhibition of new work by artist Kristen Miller.
Everyone experiences the continuous cycle of light and shadow within each day. Through choice of materials and technique, Kristen Miller documents this changing of light over hours, days, months, and seasons. Using transparent layers of organdy fabric, lustrous silk thread, and shiny glass beads, Miller creates meticulously sewn compositions that weave together ideas on light, repetition, and time.
Day and Night features two large-scale installation works alongside smaller, intimate wall works. Her intricate processes of stitching, folding, and beading accumulate into lines, patterns, and forms. The sheerness and weave of the fabric give the feeling that the works are both becoming and dissolving. The reflective glass beads are small but weighty, incrementally building up to depict a tangible sense of the shifting of time. With each new day and new night, a consistent pattern unfolds, but there is mystery in not knowing what the future holds—opening an opportunity to choose hope.