‘Hand-Me-Downs’

Posted 8/21/12

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Art Society will present “Hand-Me-Downs,” an exhibition of artwork by Kathryn Kosto, Frank Mullaney and Jake Seo at the CAS Arts Center at 48 Main St. from …

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LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Art Society will present “Hand-Me-Downs,” an exhibition of artwork by Kathryn Kosto, Frank Mullaney and Jake Seo at the CAS Arts Center at 48 Main St. from September 19 through October 18. There will be an artists’ talk on September 19 at 3 p.m., followed by a free opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m.

“Hand-Me-Downs” comprises three distinctive artists united by their explorations of fabric and its relationship to our everyday lives. Stories told by the history, textures, colors and forms of cloth, apart from the body, transcend its intended use and touches something deeper in the shared human experience.

In her show “Through the Eye of a Needle,” Kosto presents a series of collages, interpreting words and themes used in sewing and needlework, and reflects upon historical and current tensions over women’s work, identity and how the product of a woman’s hand is valued—or not.

Mullaney will exhibit photographs from his ongoing series, “Wallpaper Saints,” selected from a large body of work, made up of portraits of gay and trans men and women, as filtered through the prism of the artist’s religious youth.

For Seo, who arrived to the United States from Korea in 2002, the Laundromat figures hugely in his daily life, as well as the culture and society he joined. As he took it for inspiration, the Laundromat became a place that narrated the stories of the hard-working people that make up our society.

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