I am honored to be included in the collaborative and unique exhibition, FOLDS, which was organized by Columbus artists Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver. 

Open to the public:

Wednesday, September 25 thru Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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Opening Reception:

Wednesday, September 25, 6-8pm

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Project: ARTspace is pleased to present FOLDS, a unique project conceived by artists Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver. Originating as a mail exchange of small works between the two artists, a larger exhibition called Return to Sender was installed by the two artists in November 2020 at the Columbus Printed Arts Center. The works embodied “our experience of loss, sorrow, vulnerability and rage: a living record of our response to the pandemic and the epidemic of anti-black racism and violence.”

For Folds, Larson and Silver invited 30 artists and writers to participate, expanding their couple into a “constellation.” The artists stipulated: ”All works must be sent through the mail, either in a standard size envelope or a form no larger than 9 x 12”. With inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems and Harry Smith’s paper airplanes, each artist will be prompted to activate the fold as form and concept and consider the mailed object’s potential to expand and collapse, travel and collect. By embracing the conditions of scale and risk inherent in shipping, the works will explore the aesthetics and ethics of contingency and serendipity and repair.” The project launched from Siena, Italy with Silver’s Illuminated Newspaper in June 2023 and concluded in Columbus, OH with Larson’s Assembly in August 2024, traveling throughout the U.S. A fold is a material memory, a crease that can’t be undone. Folds convenes around the hopeful act of care and connection, holding the history of being held.

Participating Artists: Erica Baum, Sophia Chai, Moyra Davey, Amber Elison, Christine Heindl, Sara Hess, Christine Hume, Rhea Karam, Justine Kurland, Dionne Lee, Laura Larson, Laura Lisbon, Mary Lum, Aspen Mays, Klea McKenna, Christian Patterson, Camille Paulhan, Jenny Perlin, Dani & Sheilah ReStack, Julia Schwartz, Lizzie Scott, Suzanne Silver, Lydia Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Luke Stettner, Jo-ey Tang, Catherine Taylor, Carmen Winant and Vanessa Woods.

Lydia Smith 

I wonder if water can be folded
- or does it just collapse into itself
- a body without edges or creases? 

(2024)

 Photo Collage, aluminum, resin

 9 x 11 3/4”