RENAISSANCE VENICE: LIFE AND LUXURY AT THE CROSSROADS, OCT. 14 2021 - JAN. 9 2022

Dorie Millerson, Cocca Veneta, 2021

Dorie Millerson, Cocca Veneta, 2021

My piece, Cocca Veneta, will be included in Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads curated by Dr. Katrina Tsoumis for the Gardiner Museum opening next week. The exhibition features more than 100 objects from the 16th century along with the works of three contemporary artists.

Renaissance Venice was a multicultural metropolis where migration and mobility shaped the daily lives of its inhabitants. Its position at the crossroads of trade routes linking Europe to the Islamic World brought a continuous flow of commodities like pigments, spices, and luxury objects. In the homes of Venetians, these imported goods complemented locally-made products like maiolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads recreates a sensory world of objects, from Chinese porcelain and Islamic metalware to Venetian textiles and glass. 

– Gardiner Museum

LACE, NOT LACE: SEPT. 23 2018 - JAN. 6 2019

Dorie Millerson, Catboat, 2018

Dorie Millerson, Catboat, 2018

Three of my works (including Catboat, 2018) will be on show in Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques curated by Devon Thein for the Hunterdon Art Museum and featuring 41 works by 28 international artists.

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey, Tues. to Sun. 11:00-5:00 pm.

A ground-breaking exhibition highlighting how lace makers are expanding the traditional boundaries of their art form to create exciting work that investigates contemporary themes, materials and forms... Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques, reveals how contemporary fiber artists are applying bobbin and needle lace techniques to a multitude of fibers and filaments in unlimited colors and textures to interpret their world.

– Hunterdon Art Museum

Other Worlds: Sept. 20, 2016 - Jan. 2017

Co-curated by Anda Kubis & Jana Macalik, Other Worlds features the work of 19 Ontario artists associated with OCAD University. It opened on Sept. 20th, 2016 and has been extended to mid-January, 2017. 

Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Queen's Park, Toronto, ON. To view, (Mon. - Fri. on select days via tour) call 416-325-0061 or visit the website of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Displayed on the first floor of the Lieutenant Governor’s Suite at Queen’s Park, Other Worlds vividly affirms the value of embracing ties with those beyond our borders while at the same time seeking to strengthen one’s own community. Just as the artists have created works that examine the convergence of disparate visual worlds, viewers are encouraged to make space in their lives to engage with unfamiliar cultures, groups, and social issues. In the shadow of an increasingly globalized and crowded world, Other Worlds proclaims that there is much to gain by bringing more of Ontario to the world, and by inviting more of the world to Ontario. - Anda Kubis & Jana Macalik

 

 

A Very Long Engagement: Oct. 2, 2015 - Jan. 8, 2016

Dorie Millerson, Airplane, 2011

Dorie Millerson, Airplane, 2011

Curated by Frances Dorsey and organized by Dalhousie Art Gallery with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Featuring the work of Jozef Bajus, Pat Hickman, Doug Guildford, Dorie Millerson, Sherri Smith and Martha Stanley.

Society of Contemporary Craft (SCC), BNY Mellon Center (Satellite Gallery), "T" Station Lobby, Pittsburgh, PA. Open Daily.

Human beings’ relationship with string spans millennia and it is thought that simple strands of fiber were the beginning of our species’ understanding of space and abstract thought. Our very long engagement with string and its manipulation into essential everyday objects is at the core of how humans engage with the world. The works collected in this exhibition emerge from lengthy encounters with string – whether knotted, netted, interlaced, woven or percussed. Created by six fiber artists, the works form a kind of network of linked ideas, processes, physical properties and material qualities. 

Learn more about the exhibition and the participating artists in this essay by curator Frances Dorsey.

http://contemporarycraft.org/exhibition/a-very-long-engagement/