Artist Talk | BAYLEE SCHMITT

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LaiSun Keane

Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

FREE

In conjunction with Baylee Schmitt's solo exhibition at LaiSun Keane, we will be holding an Artist Talk to allow the public to gain a deeper understanding of the artist, her exhibition and her work.

Artist Talk with Baylee Schmitt
Saturday, Jan 4, 2025, 1:00pm
Exhibition: we settle into corners with the dust and mites
Exhibition dates: Jan 3 - Feb 16, 2025

Exhibition statement
I crochet my childhood home from memory, and this installation is the bedroom I once shared with my twin sister. Making this work is a meditative – and anxious – practice of understanding myself in relation to my sister and our twinness.

Crochet is a series of units: stitches that make up rows, rows that make up shapes, and shapes that make up both image and object. It echoes the way memories, relationships, and experiences seem to make up a person; the way rooms make up a house; and the way individuals make up a family. I use yarn to build shapes stitch by stitch, crafting an image to interpret the emotional memory of the space we inhabited as a unit.

A relationship fraught with petty bickering, clenched teeth, and arm pinching is also one of inherent, sometimes tense, allyship, inside jokes, and comfort. Perhaps our relationship, and the room that housed it, is defined by difference more than similarity – a sort of melty ego mess with disparate parts that don’t yet know their individual shapes. They are defined by the other and changing all the time.
- Baylee Schmitt

Seats are limited, please RSVP: info@laisunkeane.com

Address: 460C Harrison Ave C8 Boston MA 02118
Parking: Paid parking on Thayer St, Albany St and Harrison Ave parking lots.
Wheelchair access: YES, elevator

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460C Harrison Ave C8A

Boston, MA

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