2023

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Curated by Defne Tutus & Yasmeen Abdallah

Illiquid Objects is a material investigation into personal production and craft using fiber, beads and amuletic objects. We are interested in exploring the handmade object as a place to store dreams.Many of these artists work in the tangible world of physical materials and they push the boundaries of traditional textile techniques. They find inspiration in the fraying, breaking, and re-imagining of old narratives.

2022

curated by Defne Tutus

The artists in The Bone That Sings Was Mine sew bones, repair and mend bits of trash, paint with hair and exuvia, make gold rust, fill a cemetery with mellifluous song. They make amulets, shields, masks, regalia, songs and storytelling that enchants. The nine artists in this exhibit leave behind objects, marks and sounds in the world that seek to express how strange it all was.

2021

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Dappled things

Curated by Kathie Halfin @ Academy of St. Joseph, 111 Washington Place NY, NY

Weaving is a creation story. Just as nature’s seemingly distinct and particular living organisms work as a unit to uphold life, warp and weft join the stuff of the universe to make up our world. The exhibition “Dappled Things'' brings together the work of Katherine Earle and Defne Tutus, artists whose explorations of weaving reflect on the elemental and intrinsic connection humans have with nature.

Factory + Art = II

Paterson, NJ

May 2021

Curated by Emil SilbErman

Second iteration of this group exhibit hosted in an old brewery, bringing together visual artists, poets and performance artist in a salon style exhibit in an abandoned factory space.

2020

Factory + Art =

paterson, NJ

November 2020

curated by Emil Silberman

A group of sculptors guild members and invited guests exhbit group show on four floors of an abandoned Brewery. site specific installations on every floor, interactive witht their environment.

2019

Art Aqua Miami

curated by Anita Trombetta Claudia Santiso

SHIM/Emerge | Organized by Meeting House Residency: Claudia Santiso and Anita Trombetta | Hosted by SHIM Art Network