Amanda McCavour | The Delaplaine Arts Center

The Delaplaine Arts Center | 4 September 2021

Embroidered Spaces
Embroidery installations
Sep 4–Oct 31

McCavour uses a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations. Through an exploration of line and its 2–D and 3–D implications, stitch is used to explore various concepts such as connections to home, the fibers of the body, and more formal considerations of thread’s accumulative presence.

About the Delaplaine

Housed in the 100-year-old Mountain City Mill on the banks of Carroll Creek in historic downtown Frederick, The Delaplaine Arts Center has been serving the community since 1986. This vibrant nonprofit organization welcomes more than 80,000 visitors each year to the 40,000-square-foot flagship of the arts featuring:

  • 7 on-site galleries, showcasing works by regional and national artists in more than 50 exhibitions annually

  • 8 spacious studios, housing more than 250 classes and workshops for all ages each year

  • The Etchison Davis Library, one of the largest, free art references libraries open to the public in Maryland

  • The Community Art Gallery and the Community Outreach Gallery, featuring artworks created by local students and community groups

  • An Art History Timeline, offering glimpses from the prehistoric area to the 1970s

  • The Our Industrial Past panel exhibit, telling the story of our historic building

  • Beautiful Gardiner Hall, the most popular and reasonable priced event venue in downtown Frederick

  • The Gift Gallery at the Delaplaine, a retail shop supporting local artists in our community

  • The historic Mountain City Mill building itself, an adaptive reuse success story

The Delaplaine also manages three satellite galleries in partnership with the Frederick County Public Libraries. Satellite galleries are located at the Brunswick Branch Library, Thurmont Regional Library, and Urbana Regional Library.

The Delaplaine also offers family-friendly events, one-day workshops, gallery talks, and multi-day Master Artist Workshops, and more to round out the educational experience. Programs are offered both on-site and online. Visit Programs at a Glance for information about upcoming activities.

Collect Art Fair 2021

This February Cynthia Corbett Gallery is inviting you behind the scenes of Cynthia Corbett’s Wimbledon home to virtually enjoy our Collect 2021 curation. The Gallery is particularly fortunate as our model was to always involve Wimbledon HQ and enhance our international presence with appearance at venues and spaces fitting our programming and ethos. For Collect 2021 we are recreating what we would have physically shown at our booth at the Fair – in our Home Gallery space in a historic former Victorian convent.

For this outstanding edition of Collect, Cynthia Corbett Gallery is showcasing the artworks of five artists, who create multifaceted narratives while also celebrating materiality. The following three artists, while excelling in their conceptuality, are fascinated with the physical work itself:

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·  Canadian Christopher Riggio’s vessels, almost art-deco in format, are created with ceramics and glass, yet super-polished like a slab of Carrara marble;

·  Spanish Albert Montserrat looks back at the ancient history of Korean moon jars – and takes advantage of the most exquisite technical advancements, using them for his stunning glazes. His work mesmerises with the marriage of the old and new;

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·  British Amy Hughes’s practice is both fuelled by and symbolic of the highly prestigious Porcelain wares produced at the Royal Sevres Factory in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Hughes’ works reference and pay homage to the originals, but are created with a freer approach, giving them a new lease of life.

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Gallery-represented and Young Master Award winner Matt Smith is a true Renaissance artist. Textile embroiderer, ceramicist, art historian, curator, professor of arts: his mission is joining the antique and contemporary while rethinking the ways of what museums collect. His commentary is always infused with social and political mores in both a witty yet serious manner.

American Klari Reis has invented her own medium, using epoxy polymer (a form of liquid plastic) with many added ingredients including pure pigment, acrylic and secrets. Reis’s design is almost otherworldly, her colours unique and her patterns inventive. Her artwork is both object and fine art and she is at the forefront of innovative use of art resources.

 Each of these artists have had serious recognition by private and public collections including the V&A, Google, Microsoft, Design Museum Trustee Davina Mallinckrodt and Edmund de Waal.

 View full curation here.

Virtual viewings over Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp or FaceTime are available by request via info@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com.

ALBERT MONTSERRAT ADDED TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE BARCELONA DESIGN MUSEUM

“Green Urani Jar” by Albert Montserrat, has been added to the permanent collection of the Barcelona Design Museum.

In a meeting with Montserrat, Pilar Vélez, Barcelona’s Design Museum director, and Isabel Fernández, curator of the museum, decided “Green Urani Jar” will be part of the collection.

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Montserrat’s works rose the interest of the public after wining the Ceramics Biennial of Barcelona “Angelina Alós” 2018. This ceramic work was decided to be added to the collection due to“ the highly technical excellence in the processes used on the making of the work as well as the extraordinary skills of the glaze technology and ceramic knowledge.” Jury of the Ceramics Biennial Barcelona “Angelina Alós” 2018