Zoom: Family Ties
What do you do with inherited items from family members? Artist Christine Lee (’04, MFA) had her own interpretation. She took her mother’s handbag apart and then stitched its worn leather, hardware and history into tools for daily life.
What do you do with inherited items from family members? Artist Christine Lee (’04, MFA) had her own interpretation. She took her mother’s handbag apart and then stitched its worn leather, hardware and history into tools for daily life.
That transformation is at the heart of “Becoming Heirlooms,” an art exhibition that examines what families, societies and systems leave behind and what each generation chooses to keep, alter or release. at San Diego Central Library’s Judith Harris Art Gallery.
The exhibition draws on Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»â€™s community of artists. Faculty co-curators Kerianne Quick and Adam John Manley, School of Art and Design director Matt Hebert and alumni Lee, India Thompson (’21), Phil Rowland (’16, MFA), Georgina Treviño (’07) and Kaiya Rainbolt (’13), among others, explore memory through varied materials.
“There is something particularly meaningful about bringing together multiple generations of artists connected to Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»,” says Quick, associate professor in the School of Art and Design. “The exhibition makes visible the lineages created through teaching, mentorship, making and the exchange of knowledge.”
Together the artists suggest heirlooms are not simply passed down. They are continually made through use, memory and choice.
