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It's been a year of STWT and I just want to say thank you everyone for subscribing and engaging with this newsletter! It means so much to me that you are enjoying my write ups and perspective on all things art and fashion.
If you are new here let me recap by sharing that it is me Lizzie, Founder and Creative Director of Rosin Studios, writing to you every other week reporting on an art exhibit I recommend seeing and an outfit I recommend wearing. Please share this newsletter with anyone that loves either or both of these topics. And if you want to join me on a future gallery visit, let me know!
So let's get into it...
For Volume 25 I went to an exciting show at Carvalho Park, a gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I typically decide where to go after considering the press photos for a few different shows. When I saw the photos for this show I was like I have to go see this but then when I got there...it was even better in person.
As you first walk in there is a small display of Turner's work with paintings hung on the wall behind, but because I love textile arts I was hyper focused solely on Turner's pieces. To the right just after a small corridor is where the massive scaled entities reside. I was amazed at the soft movement the structures contort in while maintaining its solid amorphous mass. Standing on wheeled legs I learned these are repurposed hospital trollies. Getting deeper into the forms I discovered she used old mattresses to fill the netting of these shapes.
The heaviness of Turner's pieces tell the story of recent grief, when it is all consuming, swarming up around you. Her work moves like a tentacled sea creature, organically slithering this way and that. While there is no apparent humanoid element, there is an undeniable personification in the work. Movement is primary descriptor of this show and to highlight this even more Turner welcomes Ephemeral Solace (In Passing) a choreography by Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight, performance details on Carvalho Park's site linked below.
Grief was the starting point for this work. It is an emotion we all can relate to but from our own personal vantages. I really appreciate the correlation this show speaks to using both the literal materials and notions of a bed. As Rebecca Birrell comments "Many begin and end their lives there; it is a stage for birth and death" To me a bed is a place where we recount the yesterdays and dream up hopes for our tomorrows. Turner takes these physical elements of daily life and reimagines what it looks like when that bed no longer serves the same purpose.
Many movies use rain to signify some type of sadness the character is experiencing so I found it fitting the day I saw this emotional show it was raining out. I decided to play down the day to night aspect this week since we don't all go out every night and sometimes we want to dress more low-key. Starting with our Logo Embroidered Tee because it is just such a go-to to wear a graphic shirt when dressing casual. The shirt itself is a more washed black to have that worn in vintage vibe people love in tshirts. And I choice embroidery over screen-printing to give it a more special and tactile feel. I paired it with the Suez Skirt for a feminine touch to balance the oversized top. Even though it is a skirt it is so comfortable with the elastic waistband and the side slits give great ease of movement.
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