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The Wege Center for the Arts at Maharishi International University presents Liber Floridus with Amanda Curreri and Andy Ness. Featuring woven and textile-based works by Curreri and multimedia works on paper by Ness, the exhibition presents a compendium of the artists’ visual lexicons that include symbols, imagery and pattern rich with personal significance. Andy Ness’ works vibrate with ethereal energy, glowing with metallic leaf, and grounded by recognizable imagery amongst colorful washes and textures. To achieve the widest range of opacity and transparency in his drawings, Ness mixes pigments and binders, incorporating walnut ink for its fugitive traits. As one of the primary inks used by medieval manuscript illuminators, its qualities become philosophically resonant as it shifts and oxidizes over time, paralleling the medieval sense of knowledge as always partial, always subject to revision. Just as encyclopedias are living documents rather than fixed authorities, so, too are Ness’ works, in a state of constantly arriving, finding voice from what came before.
Amanda Curreri incorporates storytelling, social justice histories and folklore into her textile works. Regarding weaving as a social technology, Curreri uses it to learn from history, layering collaged imagery and techniques, as she shifts between floor looms, table-top looms, and the digital Jacquard loom. The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 19th century, uses punch cards to encode pattern, linking it as a direct ancestor of binary computing and digital logic. Curreri’s digital Jacquard loom sits at a peculiar historical crossroads, connecting backward to medieval tapestry as encyclopedic storytelling, and forward to the logic of databases and digital archives. The loom itself becomes a kind of compendium machine, as Curreri’s work occupies the whole timeline simultaneously.
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MIU Art Department, 1000 N 4th St, Fairfield, IA 52557-0001, United States
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