Fei Disbrow: Catalogue of Stitches
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Gallery Jones 1-258 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 1A6
Fei Disbrow, "At the Edge of Cities," 2020
textile collage, 57" x 43"
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of two exhibitions at Gallery Jones: Fei Disbrow, Catalogue of Stitches, and Birthe Piontek, Janus. Saturday, September 12, 1 - 5pm, RSVP required.
In an effort to maintain adequate physical distancing in the Gallery, please RSVP by September 11thwith an indication of what time you would like to come that afternoon, i.e. 1:00 - 1:45, 1:45 - 2:30, 2:30 - 3:15, 3:15 - 4:00 or 4:00 - 4:45.
Fei Disbrow: Catalogue of Stitches
Artist Statement:
I am not an attentive sewist. I revel in the repetition of my work; I succumb to the process, not to precision. I do so by not knowing where it will lead. I am aligned with Ann Hamilton when she said "One doesn't arrive - in words or in art - by necessarily knowing where one is going". I too give myself permission, a "rigorous willingness to trust, leaving knowing in suspension, trusting in possibility without result", to make art. Allowing instinct to be my driver, I muddle around amongst my collected scraps and remnant fabrics in my studio, arranging them without over-intellectualizing them. However, each selection inevitably has resonance, each material has imbedded meaning. My forms are evocative of grain silos, archways, elongated shadows on an autumn eve, or the Purist figurative elements found in Leger's paintings. They are interrupted portals and fragmented characters. My titles provide a possible narrative but they do not dictate the work. The titles act like a reveal - like peeking at the inside of a garment to see how it is made. As the poet Anne Boyer is with her sewing, I do things abruptly, often crudely; do not be deceived, my work is not precise, my stitches pierce and heal, and I know I am not an attentive sewist.
Fei Disbrow has exhibited extensively across Canada and the U.S. She completed an M.F.A. in Sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the TD Bank Art Collection (Toronto) and numerous public and private collections.