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This-Worldly Art Exhibition
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
Working with paper, ceramics, and textiles, Sharon Servilio creates relief and free-standing sculptures that embody her ecstatic response to an abundantly animate world. Merging ancient ritual objects with current scientific research, the sculptures encode interspecies narratives such as pollination, food webs, and life cycles. Rejecting the paradigm of environment as inert, expendable, and severed from humanity, her work underscores the mythic and mystical dimensions of ecological stories.
The exhibition includes the installation Tactile Transmissions, in which visitors are invited to touch, hold, and interact with embroidered fabric and inscribed clay vessels, figurines, and beads. The diagrams and symbols embedded in these objects represent biological processes that Servilio has observed in her yard, around Portland, and under a microscope, supplemented with research from scientific papers, books, and local nature guides. The forms are inspired by Neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts that appear to blur the lines between domestic and sacred, human and non-human spheres. This speculative and participatory approach to archeology is intended to cultivate a more sacred and interconnected relationship to the natural world in the here and now.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 22, 2 p.m.
This project was funded in part by The Puffin Foundation.
Upcoming Dates & Times
- Monday, Jan. 19
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Tuesday, Jan. 20
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Wednesday, Jan. 21
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Thursday, Jan. 22
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Monday, Jan. 26
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Tuesday, Jan. 27
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Wednesday, Jan. 28
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Thursday, Jan. 29
- 10 a.m.–4 p.m.