In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

by Daniel Belasco, Akiko Busch, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, and Sara J. Pasti

Daniel Belasco (Editor)

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In/Animate surveys the past decade of work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, internationally renowned metalsmith and head of the Metal Program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by author Akiko Busch, the exhibition explores a variety of artistic processes using iron, copper, brass, silver, and enameled steel. Mimlitsch-Gray's domestic artifacts suggest a coalescence of body and thing, conveying the mutability of the animate and inanimate and reflecting the intimacy between people and the objects they use. A spoon could be a lip, or a dangling twist of fabric, a vein. Over forty meticulously crafted works contribute to the contemporary conversation about how household objects express ideas about presentation, utility, and class.
  • ISBN10 0692560114
  • ISBN13 9780692560112
  • Publish Date 1 September 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Imprint Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 72
  • Language English