Current Exhibition
SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT
today’s special: misogyny with a slice of sexism
Morgan Bukovec
November 11 - December 4
- Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- December 3, 5:00 PM, Artist Performance (Free)
- December 4, 4:00 PM, Cross Stitch Workshop ($15)
- December 4, 6:00 PM Artist Talk with Morgan Bukovec (Free)
"SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT, today’s special: misogyny with a slice of sexism" invites viewers on a raw and emotional journey when exploring Morgan Bukovec's special installation project, a result of her decade-long work in the service industry. Kaiser Gallery will host an opening reception of Morgan’s new exhibition on Friday, November 11 from 6-9 p.m. at our location at 2418 Professor Avenue.
This series breathes with intention. Morgan works with found objects across mediums including collage, textiles, and installation, focusing on the themes of identity, storytelling, and fleeting moments and objects across time. The guest checkbooks featured in the installation, made their way into Morgan’s life when she unconsciously brought them home, accumulating them over the years of serving and bartending. Morgan stitches the words said to her by men that cannot be erased or undone. The sharp point of the sewing needle is a metaphor for the pain of microaggressions that slowly and unconsciously reveals themselves and worsen through repeated infliction. Her needle, sewing thread, and guest checkbooks act as tools of meditative resistance while referencing the historically rooted practice of cross-stitching and needlework as “women’s work.”
The SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT has grown into one-hundred works over the past 2 years that individually and collectively question the patriarchal dominated society we live in. This series acts as a living force of personal release, healing, and ownership of Morgan’s female form.
This series breathes with intention. Morgan works with found objects across mediums including collage, textiles, and installation, focusing on the themes of identity, storytelling, and fleeting moments and objects across time. The guest checkbooks featured in the installation, made their way into Morgan’s life when she unconsciously brought them home, accumulating them over the years of serving and bartending. Morgan stitches the words said to her by men that cannot be erased or undone. The sharp point of the sewing needle is a metaphor for the pain of microaggressions that slowly and unconsciously reveals themselves and worsen through repeated infliction. Her needle, sewing thread, and guest checkbooks act as tools of meditative resistance while referencing the historically rooted practice of cross-stitching and needlework as “women’s work.”
The SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT has grown into one-hundred works over the past 2 years that individually and collectively question the patriarchal dominated society we live in. This series acts as a living force of personal release, healing, and ownership of Morgan’s female form.
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ARTIST BIO:
Morgan Bukovec (b. 1996) is a mixed media artist, educator, and collector of things from Cleveland, Ohio. In 2018, she was awarded bachelors degrees in both Fine Arts and Arts Education from the University of Dayton and since has worked with several community art spaces in Cleveland including moCa Cleveland, Spaces, Community Arts Center, Kaiser Gallery and Headspace Gallery, providing art engagement and workshops. Bukovec is interested in how art builds empathy through storytelling, which inspires her interdisciplinary art practice. Bukovec works with found objects across mediums including collage, textiles, and installation, focusing on the themes of identity, storytelling, and fleeting moments and objects across time. Recent invitational exhibitions include; solo exhibition, SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT, today’s special: misogyny with a slice of sexism at Kaiser Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, two-person exhibition, Taking Up Space at Malone Art Gallery in Canton, Ohio, and Women’s Work: New Takes On Textile Art at Reeves House in Woodstock, Georgia. |
Bukovec was recently awarded a gift grant by the Kanyer Art Collection to complete her 100 work series: SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT (@serviceindustrystitchproject). This series is the result of the past decade of her work in the service industry, aiming to highlight the power of words and personal reclamation. She recently moved back to Ohio from Prague, Czech Republic where she spent time teaching, exploring, and making art. She plans to further expand her creative endeavors, while planning for her next travel adventure.