Child’s Play: An Investigation of Violence, Desires, and Taboos Through Art

Schedule

Wed Jan 15 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

C24 Gallery | New York, NY

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An exhibition and panel discussion exploring the methods and materiality of addressing challenging topics through artistic expression.
About this Event

A panel discussion exploring the methods and materiality of addressing challenging topics through artistic expression. With the works of Berlin-based crochet artist Patricia Waller as a focal point, the conversation will address the use of unconventional methods to provide unique points of entry into difficult terrain, as well as the role of art in stimulating discussion about controversial issues. The artist will be present, along with a panel of speakers representing the art world and the international humanitarian sector (to be announced).

This event will be hosted at C24 Gallery, located at 560 West 24th Street, New York, New York, 10011.


About the Exhibition:

Child’s Play is the first solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Patricia Waller at C24 Gallery. The show displays the myriad ways that Waller explores how violence is woven into the fabric of modern culture, particularly as it impacts children and animals. Her crocheted figures combine elements of cartoon-like innocence with sinister undertones and graphic depictions of both accidental and purposeful injury. The juxtaposition of these contrasting elements conjures both humor and horror, awakening the senses of viewers to profound effect.

Waller's ambiguous works raise uncomfortable questions about how we deal with the various forms of violence in our society: the violence to which we are exposed, which we perpetrate ourselves and which we consume with relish. In so doing, she encourages us to reconsider how we deal with our fears and our ability to address or repress them.

Banner photo: Adrian Fernandez Milanes/Courtsey of C24 Gallery



Biographies

‍Berlin-based artist Patricia Waller is well known for her colorful crocheted works that deliver serious messages about violence and abuse via a medium that is more commonly associated with comfort. Chilean-born Waller has made a decades-long career of responding to the growing acceptance of violence in the world as well as satirizing and playing with cultural mythologies and norms.

Patricia Waller has been widely exhibited throughout Germany and also in China, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently at C24 Gallery in last year’s group exhibition, Conflicted. She is represented in Europe by Galerie Deschler, Berlin.


Sharon Louden wears many interchangeable hats including artist, educator, advocate for artists, consultant, community builder, editor of the  series of books, and Executive Director of Women’s Studio Workshop. Sharon graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Weisman Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, and others.

Sharon is currently a faculty member in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In addition to teaching, she continues to conduct grassroots Glowtown workshops in schools and not-for-profit organizations across the country and she is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Sustained Creativity. Her new upcoming book, , will be published in early 2025.

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C24 Gallery, 560 West 24th Street, New York, United States

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