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