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(Un)wearables, a juried exhibition of garments and adornment designed from unusual materials, will be displayed Jan. 5-31 at the Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Hamilton and High Streets.
Curated by Maria Kastrinakis, (Un)wearables will present garments, objects of adornment, costumes of celebration or ritual, textiles, and jewelry created from unusual materials that make the item unwearable for all practical purposes.
Works will include creations by Charles Welles. Scranton, Pa., “Shirt” made of marble; Caroline Gibson, Hot Springs, Mont., “Rawhide Girdle”; Martha Posner, Martins Creek, Pa., “Red Headed Sister” from her Redhead garment series; Kathy Bruce, Easton, Pa., mixed media “Fold-Out Victorian Paper Dress”; Heather Sincavage, Allentown, and Tzirel Kaminetzky, New York City, dresses made of paper; mixed media bodice by Erica Rasmussen, Mary Zehngut, Margaret Campbell, and Maggie Paré Farrell, all of Easton, with a “House Dress” installation; and Donna Carney, Easton, “Waiting to Fly.” Also included will be photographs by Berendina Buist, High Bridge, N.J., Lydia Panas, Kutztown, and Krista Leigh Steinke, Bethlehem; jewelry by Maryann Riker, Philipsburg, N.J., (“Choke-Her,” an artist’s book) and Patricia Delluva, Bethlehem (“She Fell for Him Hook, Line, and Sinker”); concrete overshoes by D. Polly Kendrick and Richard A. Kendrick, Easton; steel shoes by Kate Moran, Philadelphia; and a plastic wrap wig by Kate Cusak, New York.
A clothing art workshop will be held by Posner for children 8-12 years old from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17 (snow date Jan. 24), and by Kastrinakis for college-aged students and adults 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18. Participants will be encouraged to attend the closing reception in their creations. There also will be a hair sculpture workshop led by Terry Niedzialek of Kutztown 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, which will lead up to the 4-6 p.m. closing reception. Workshop participants with sculpted hair and their “sculptors,” exhibition artists, and all reception-goers are invited to attend the reception in imaginative art-wearables.
The workshops are free, but signups with the gallery are required at (610) 330-5361 or artgallery@lafayette.edu.
Kastrinakis is an artist, fashion designer, and art educator. Before her recent relocation to the Lehigh Valley, she lived and worked in New York City, designing for such companies as Anne Klein & Co., Isaac Mizrahi Collection, and Banana Republic. She has curated and organized a number of exhibitions, including a group show of 117 artists at GAle GAtes et al. Gallery in Brooklyn; her own work has been included in exhibitions at various venues, including Museum of New Art in Detroit. Kastrinakis teaches and holds exhibitions at her gallery/workshop, project BLUE, in downtown Easton, and is a member of the faculty of Baum School of Art in Allentown.
During January, the Williams Center gallery is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Williams Center gallery is funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.