Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Saturday, September 21 from 7-9PM.

On View September 21 - November 10, 11AM-6PM.

We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Myra Mimlitsch-Gray on October 26, from 2-3pm in the Gallery.

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray explores facture, conceptualizing material conditions to construct fictions. The technical methods are both deliberate and open-ended, resulting in a range of outcomes that share certain through-lines. Tension builds between familiar surface and unconventional form. The organic process is tempered by an analytical slice.

Conduit presents interconnections across several series of works and  the ideas conveyed by their juxtaposition. 

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field’s history and methods to interpret utility and form. Her studio practice is at times speculative, theoretical, and in conversation with pedagogical concerns. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Facture is explored as an idea and then constructed as an image; this research is reflected in the objects she generates.

Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. An American Craft Council Fellow, Mimlitsch-Gray was recently named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. As professor she received two Chancellor’s Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. She has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray’s work is widely exhibited and included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museums of Scotland, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Images courtesy of the artist: www.mimlitschgray.com