Glitter Dotted
June 7 – June 26, 2019
RECEPTION: Friday, June 7, 2019 @ 6 PM - 9 PM
Glitter Dotted is a two person exhibition inspired by the hidden and seemingly mundane
beauty of daily life tending to family. Glittery, spotted, and intricately fashioned - the work
elevates the important calling and repetitive pulses of motherhood. Although Lael Burns
and Mindy Sue Wittock work in diverse media, they both tend toward pattern and
progressive reiterations informed both by the domestic labor and the exquisite spectacle
of growing new humans.
Lael’s work literally combines the mundane and the exquisite in her organic sculptures
and paintings. Ordinary blob shapes and cheap craft materials are transformed into
unbearably beautiful objects reminiscent of coral reef or microorganisms that speak of
the artist’s deeply spiritual experiences while raising three small children. They embody
a visual dichotomy that parallels the complex nature of domestic life as a mother which
is as relentless as it is intensely joyful. Lael’s work illuminates ideas of literal and
spiritual pregnancy, growth, new life, and birth.concern
Mindy uses sewing and stitching techniques to create soft sculptures that are inspired
by nostalgia, motherhood, play and form. She gathers domestic textiles and objects to
build pieces that explore the intersection of her childhood memories and her current
experiences in motherhood. As she builds sculptures with stuffed animal scraps, bed
sheets, her daughter’s outgrown clothing, and bits and baubles, she considers how
used and worn fiber goods around the house are unceremoniously tossed or donated,
but the cloth holds so much memory. Each of these pieces become a relic full of stories
and the heartache of a childhood past and a present childhood fleeting.
Lael Burns:
Instagram: @Lael_Burns_Studio
Twitter: @LaelBurnsStudio
Facebook: Lael Burns Studio
Mindy Sue Wittock:
Instagram: @mindymaker
Twitter @mindysuewittock