Threads and Layers Traveling Exhibition Catalog, 2022

This catalog encapsulates the entirety of the SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers traveling exhibition with details and full color images of the site-specific work chosen for each gallery and museum.

Produced by the Gadsden Museum of Art

Size: 8” x 10”

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SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers at the Gadsden Museum of Art

Essay for Traveling Exhibition Catalog by Mary Jones, 2022

Breath has a rhythm, a sound, and although invisible to us, we can see and feel it happening, this simple, essential proof of life. This origin cycle, often used as a metaphor for change and renewal, connects us to the natural world, to our habitat, to the motion of the tides, of the ocean, which creates fifty percent of the oxygen we inhale. In conversations with Sara Garden Armstrong in her Birmingham studio this past June, breath emerged repeatedly as the powerful anchor grounding her four decades of multifaceted, poetic work.

The infinite crossing points between vital cycles of life—breath, water, time, and change—galvanize Threads and Layers, Armstrong’s exhibition at the Gadsden Museum of Art. She activates the spaces between the inner and outer realms of bodily sensation, moving between the expansiveness of imagination, of the consciousness of our ability to experience without limits, and the limitations of the body, the fundamental constraints of time and mortality. Read more.

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