Finding your artistic voice is a common topic in artistic circles. Wanna have a solo show? Ya gotta have a voice. Applying for a grant? Need that voice. Being recognizable is something we strive for. Artist Shea Hembrey has taken a different approach in his conceptual project entitled Seek. Seek is a biennial or Biennale—pronounced “be a nolly”—the hoity-toity term for a huge art fair that takes place every two years. You haven’t heard of the Seek Biennial? It could be because the show, the curators, the 100 artists, and over 400 works of art are all inventions of Hembrey.
Pour yourself a cup of coffee, glass of wine, or something stronger and watch Hembrey talk about the project and the artists in this 16 minute TED talk. If your browser blocks this embedded video, click here to go directly to the link: (http://www.ted.com/talks/shea_hembrey_how_i_became_100_artists.html)
If you don’t have time to watch it now, check out the work of three of his artists (note that two are fiber artists!). Then come back and watch the video.
So why are the Pixeladies writing about this? We tell stories in cloth. We love the stories behind the art. We love to listen to a good story. Shea Hembrey’s Seek combines all of these things. And besides, maybe we don’t have to struggle to come up with a single voice from two distracted minds. What do you think?
2 responses to “Finding Your Voice (Or Not!)”
Your colaboratative works are outstanding & your individual pieces are as well. How much do each of you create outside the realm of Pixeladies?
Not as much as I’d like, Marcia. Every time I think I have time to create something by myself, I decide I’d better do something like, oh–I don’t know, housework. Uggg.