Archival ink jet print 19.75”x 27.25” (framed)
Edition of 20
The brush is probably one of the earliest tools employed in the personal, domestic and social spaces humans have been making since they first decided to clear their cave of accumulated leaves, bones and expired lottery tickets. Since then it is a form that has constantly evolved and adapted to an endless range of applications and materials. They often reflect the natural world in the materials used to make them. They are a kind of fiber art, both unique and industrial, made to maintain order, organize and alter. Many of the examples in the wall installation and the photographic prints celebrate forms reflecting the hands that have used them, the repetitious, erosive nature of their function and the materials they were made to interact with.
Lunar Insurrection is a collaborative publication that employs outer space as a setting for new conceptions of ecology and humanity.
This series of printed volumes and accompanying projects combines visual art, storytelling, and critical discourse, in an effort to employ science fiction as artistic medium.
Each book employs the conceptual setting of Earth's moon overlaying humanity upon our beloved satellite, that age-old pearly mirror of desire. In the ode of science fiction, this is both an imaginative game and a critical experiment, testing whether our conceptions of ourselves can be pushed further in a post-planetary space.
The Boy Mechanic Project. Cherry wood. 11” x 2.5”. Food-safe finish. Will be sent with retail-friendly label.
“I first encountered Querls in the 1915 do-it-yourself book “The Boy Mechanic.” The Boy Mechanic’s Querl is a kitchen utensil, useful for mixing (twirled between the palms of the hands), mashing, or juicing. The Versatile Querl/Queer-All re-imagines this antique kitchen utensil, embracing it’s ambiguity and versatility as a metaphoric form of queering, and the simple design of the original Querl is augmented by inspirations from Shaker furniture, antique tools, and sex toys. The Querl/Queer-All is ready to be put to use in the domestic environment, and is finished with a food-safe finish.”
Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist based in Greenfield, MA. Her work explores cultural understandings of nature, gender, and American history, through the production of objects and collaborative experiments in public spaces. She has exhibited extensively in the northeastern US, and has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Northampton Arts Council. She has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, Sculpture Space, Hewnoaks, and the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. Gina holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and teaches in the dep’t of Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College.
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Mark Dion creates taxonomic installations that explore the way institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Collecting objects and ephemera, Dion then arranges them in installations reminiscent of historical curiosity cabinets. Engaging in a form of amateur archaeology, Dion has dredged a canal in Venice for a piece at the Biennale, and the London Thames for an installation at the Tate Modern. For Rescue Archaeology (2004) at the Museum of Modern Art, he conducted excavations of the construction site for the building’s extension in 2000, uncovering old keys, bathroom tiles, and fragments of wallpaper, among other objects.
The painterly quality of Caroline Wallner’s work is one of the signatures of Tivoli Tile Works. Each piece of pottery is hand-thrown, hand-glazed, and hand-painted, some with the woodland creatures that inhabit Caroline’s surroundings—fox, owls, deer. Each piece is uniquely lovely and simply useful. Tivoli Tile Works celebrates everyday experience. As Caroline says: “My pottery is made to use daily: to serve with, to eat and drink with, to handle, to wash, to display. I love the simplicity of it, the functionality is important. The cups are the first thing you go for in the morning and the last thing you go for at night.”
Please note: this pottery is handcrafted in small batches. Every piece is unique. There are slight variations in color, texture, glaze, and form, adding to the singular beauty of each piece. Due to the one-of-a-kind nature and limited batches, products sell out quickly. Lead free glazes.
Cup $48
Bowl $56
Mixed media with reclaimed soy oil, coconut oil, water, potassium hydroxide, boric acid and essential oils. Varied sizes (2”-13.5” individually.)
Bottle Soap involves a partnership between Shelley Spector and a Philadelphia donut company, for the collection of their used soy oil. Through a chemical process, she transforms the oil into small batches of unique liquid soaps, decanted into one of a kind, bottle editions and installations.
While in Costa Rica at an artist residency, Spector discovered that the soap she used was made with cooking oil reclaimed from their kitchen. Intrigued by this idea of reuse, she returned to Costa Rica several years later to study soap making. Through this process, Spector makes the soap that fills the bottles on display. These pieces continue the artist’s investigation of the theory that an artwork can generate needed resources, and re-establish the activity of making artwork as a community-based intervention. Her interests are in researching and understanding the models or ideals of an artist’s practice that might be unsustainable or outdated as well as those that are new and innovative.
With the development of this project, Spector hopes to create a small sustainable system, one that extends the use of the oil in a way that can benefit communities or individuals in her area.
Shelley Spector is a multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. In her practice she responds to available resources, often discarded, in combination with a changeable work environment. She produces distinct bodies of work that search for social interconnectedness. Her work is part of many public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which presented her solo exhibition “Keep The Home Fires Burning” in 2015, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. Spector has received grants from the Pollock-Kranser Foundation, Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Leeway Foundation.
Tivoli Tile Works / Stoneware
Handcrafted in small batches., every piece is unique. There are slight variations in color, texture, glaze, and form, adding to the singular beauty of each piece.
The painterly quality of Caroline Wallner’s work is one of the signatures of Tivoli Tile Works. Each piece of pottery is hand-thrown, hand-glazed, and hand-painted, some with the woodland creatures that inhabit Caroline’s surroundings—fox, owls, deer. Each piece is uniquely lovely and simply useful. Tivoli Tile Works celebrates everyday experience. As Caroline says: “My pottery is made to use daily: to serve with, to eat and drink with, to handle, to wash, to display. I love the simplicity of it, the functionality is important. The cups are the first thing you go for in the morning and the last thing you go for at night.”
The painterly quality of Caroline Wallner’s work is one of the signatures of Tivoli Tile Works. Each piece of pottery is hand-thrown, hand-glazed, and hand-painted, some with the woodland creatures that inhabit Caroline’s surroundings—fox, owls, deer. Each piece is uniquely lovely and simply useful. Tivoli Tile Works celebrates everyday experience. As Caroline says: “My pottery is made to use daily: to serve with, to eat and drink with, to handle, to wash, to display. I love the simplicity of it, the functionality is important. The cups are the first thing you go for in the morning and the last thing you go for at night.”
Please note: pottery is handcrafted in small batches. Every piece is unique. There are slight variations in color, texture, glaze, and form, adding to the singular beauty of each piece. Due to the one-of-a-kind nature and limited batches, products sell out quickly. Lead free glazes.
The U & I System, (You and Eye,) is hardware design by J. Morgan Puett of Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity); an ongoing systemic intervention in FACTORY. Ceiling and wall hooks, eye-bars and stands, brackets, shelving and more become modulating elements for any room in a household or FACTORY.
This Ecology Hanger is inspired by early environmental symbols from the early seventies. The hanger is handmade with quarter inch, welded steel, 17 1/2 “ X 15 “, and everlasting. Activate it with anything or use as a wall embellishment.
Cut Shirt is a special project by J. Morgan Puett for A Guide to the Field. An evolving collection of fine, white, cotton men's shirting. By cutting out all gender signifiers from a man's classic dress shirt, this recycled, all-cotton, garment becomes environmentally / socially / politically sound – the perfect basic for every wardrobe.