Artist Talk + Walkthrough with Claire Cowie
Channel: Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Date: 2020-08-13

Join us online for an exhibition tour with artist Claire Cowie and director Daniel Peabody.

Claire Cowie’s exhibition "In the Vacuum, Outside the Atmosphere" explores loss, death and undefined spaces beyond our understanding. Cowie says the work investigates, “the ways in which we make meaning, impose order, and celebrate finding beauty in unanticipated places.” Most of the works, including sculptures, are made entirely from paper. Triangular shaped or imperfect scraps of paper highlight the artist’s idiosyncratic style and palette combinations of brilliant hues and dark earth tones. 

Cowie uses a quilted patchwork vernacular to create celestial starbursts and mariner’s compass patterning. Her "Meditations" collage series symbolizes emotional navigation through pain and loss, while large bowl-shaped paper sculptures titled Imperfect Vessels simultaneously suggest the strengths and vulnerabilities of the body.