Exhibition Opening: Quantifying Care; Intertwined; Power of Growth

Name: Exhibition Opening: Quantifying Care; Intertwined; Power of Growth
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 777 Evening St, Worthington, OH, United States, Ohio 43085

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

777 Evening St, Worthington, OH, United States, Ohio 43085 | Worthington, OH

Lily Glass shares, "Mine is a practice interested in the deep spiritual connection of the feminine experience and the natural world. While exploring the varied evolution of the individual woman’s journey, I utilize repetition and symbols from past matriarchal cultures to honor the resilience of the collective
whole. Throughout my work, the language of motherhood is used to deconstruct society’s held value and treatment of women and the work of care, especially within two of our cultures most highly valued realms : religion and capitalism.
Methodically crafted pieces echo the unceasing rhythms of care, posing the questions : Is the value that we assign the work different depending on who is providing or receiving the care? What are the variables that make one act holy and another simply the day’s duty? At which point does routine become ritual? At which point does our caring become sacred? Can the work of caring for another individual be quantified? It seems we do not have to assign value if we consider a resource to be expendable. Our survival is contingent upon the nurture that we receive from the earth and one another yet we’ve grown accustomed to extracting what is necessary without reciprocating"

Margarita Vilshanetskaya shares, "Intertwined, a series of contemporary fiber and mixed media works that examines our intimate relationship with fiber and textile and the perpetual desire to touch it. Fiber is overtly tactile and plays a major role in everyday life, but as an art form, often made inaccessible for guests to touch and experience in a traditional gallery setting. This exhibition closes the gap and brings fiber back to its original purpose: to be touched, felt, and caressed. As guests explore the exhibition, they experience the work in a more haptic and familiar way. The softness of the fiber begs to be touched while the vinyl and specialty paper illuminates for a closer, more intimate look. With the light reflecting off the different materials, the viewer is invited to experience the works from a myriad of perspectives."
Weiting Wei shares, "Identity of motherhood is entangled with being an artist, knowing how materials work, using processes that are similar to domestic life allows familiarity with the forms, and muscle memory, so that I am able to engage with the subtleties of the materials. How it moves and responds to my hands and the kitchen tools that I utilize to create the work. This reminds me in many ways of engaging with my children and family. That my behavior, or response to them and their needs shifts with each incident, and due to their personality they too respond to the same action in different ways. In the artwork this is reflected through the way that some clay remains very flat, and thin, while others have a wave, curve or frill. The gathering of these actions over and over reflects in some ways the moments accumulated each day and each year building into something beautiful."
The public is welcomed to an opening reception September 18, 2025 from 6 - 8 p.m. with the exhibition on display through November 6, 2025.