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Erin M. Riley: Look Back At It at mother's tankstation
Interweaving craft-making with ‘digital’ design to pull together a series of tapestries that narrate contemporary life in New York, artist Erin M. Riley's current exhibition at mother's tankstation Look Back At It lays bare the personal, in addition to the sentimental, philosophical and even psychological. How she does this, you ask? By creating one-of-a-kind tapestries that reflect as much anguish as they do comfort in the scenes they illustrate. What makes Riley's work so great is that although the medium she employs in her work is heavily symbolic (you only have to look at textile's domestic history to know the how and why regarding Riley's appropriation of the fabric), the final result ends up looking more like a fractured paper collage à la Richard Hamilton. Think Grayson Perry's imitable tapestry series Vanity of Small Differences only better, grander and more opulent.
Erin M. Riley: Look Back At It at mother's tankstation is open to the public until 1 March, 2025.