SO FIERCELY LOVED: ORNAMENTATION AND DECORATION
To ornament is to make a public declaration of attachment, insisting that what we cherish deserves visibility, recognition, and a place within our shared cultural life.
We are pleased to announce So Fiercely Loved: Ornamentation and Decoration, a group exhibition featuring six contemporary artists:
Billy Frolov
Bianca MacPherson
Cara Rae Joven
Lela Shahrzad Welch
Laura Stinger
Joshua Thomen
Taking the historical Pattern and Decoration movement as a point of departure, So Fiercely Loved explores ornamentation as a language of psychological expression, cultural memory, and personal transformation.
Working across painting, ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media, the participating artists use ornamentation to give form to the unseen relationships that shape our lives. Through acts of adornment, accumulation, and transformation, their works move beyond passive embellishment to become active processes through which histories are preserved, identities negotiated, and new possibilities imagined.
To ornament or decorate something is to insist that it is worthy of attention, worthy of care, and worthy of a future beyond the histories it carries.
