For immediate release:July 31, 2008
Contact: Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com or Niki Johnson at nikileejohnson@gmail.com.
Material is pleased to present its sixth exhibition of 2008: Niki Johnson and Melissa Farris: Moral Fiber.
The exhibition will open with a reception for the artist on Friday, August 1 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition will run through August 29.
Niki Johnson and Melissa Farris collaboratively present Moral Fiber, an exhibition that stitches together traditional women’s media with pointed socio-political commentary. The exhibition will feature large-scale appliquéd portraiture as well as miniature cross-stitch studies that investigate the ironic relationships between American morality and the media. This body of work continues both Johnson and Farris’ individual dialogs concerning cultural ideologies while uniting the two under the genre of domestic craft.
Both artists are recent BFA graduates of the University of Memphis. Johnson and Farris have shown regionally and nationally. Melissa Farris was the recipient of Lantana’s Class of ’07 “Most Popular Award” for her oil painting Jonathon and Bo, depicting two men making out on a couch. Niki Johnson has won the Undergraduate Award in the last two consecutive Annual Juried Student Exhibitions at AMUM. Moral Fiber is the first of several exhibitions the duo are organizing through next spring.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
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