Karen Mahaffy & Erin Curtis at Unit B
Posted by ben on 19 Jul 2007 at 03:35 pm | Tagged as: upcoming events
Here’s the press release (or part of it, anyway) for Unit B’s upcoming show:
Unit B is proud to present The Yellow Wallpaper, curated by Risa Puleo and featuring artists Karen Mahaffy (San Antonio) and Erin Curtis (Austin), on view July 27-September 7, 2007.
The exhibition The Yellow Wallpaper takes its name and inspiration from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1899 short story, in which the main character, based on Gilman’s own experience, is driven into a state of temporary insanity by the patterns papering the wall of the room she is confined to after being prescribed a Victorian “rest cure.” And though it is not the artists’—Karen Mahaffy of San Antonio and Austin-based Erin Curtis—intention to induce or invoke madness through their exploration of pattern, others of the story’s motifs reverberate in the work they present. Aspects of space including the domestic, and by association, the feminine; the psychological, and thus an interior and internal space; and the physical, as a counterpoint to the self, all manifest in the exhibition. Ultimately, the exhibition provide an opportunity to consider Unit B’s setting in a house, and the ways in which we live in, interact with and understand this universal construct.