Opening Reception: Patterning Resistance

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Annette Lawrence

Patterning Resistance features artists, Becky Alley, Annette Lawrence, and Crystal Gregory, whose works are structured by a feminist approach to systems. They embody a tension between the fixity and fluidity of form—emphasizing materiality’s resistance to the precise articulation of the patterns that ostensibly determine them. Against masculinist systems of mastery, autonomy, and control, their works stress vulnerability, contingency, and co-production. Their starting points are systems that bind them to others (e.g., historical designs, personal data, and national statistics on violent crime). However, they materialize these patterns in a manner that redirects their normative uses and produces dynamic reverberations. Locating patterns, examining them, and intervening in their structure, these artists transform them through processes resistant tothe paths laid out before them.