Devotion/Destruction Craft Inheritance
View the performance Disruption, by Alexandra Ben-Abba and join exhibition curator, Rebecca Pristoop and artists Alexandra Ben-Abba, Alyssa Casey, and Crystal Gregory on a tour of the exhibition Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance. Pristoop will introduce the show, describe its genesis in conjunction with Gregory, and together with Ben-Abba and Casey, discuss the works on view. They will address the use of craft materials in each piece and consider each artist鈥檚 devotion to, or destruction of, traditional craft practices.
Rebecca Pristoop is a New York-based curator and art historian. Since 2005 she has organized exhibitions in alternative and non-profit art spaces in New York City. Pristoop has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Jewish Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Tang Museum and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her research and exhibitions. She holds an MA in art history from New York University鈥檚 Institute of Fine Arts.
Alexandra Ben-Abba is a New York-based artist originally trained in glass and ceramics. Her work employs performance, video, and interactive installation as means to engage with process. Ben-Abba holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She had a solo show at Slag Gallery in 2014 and her honors include a grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Bronfman Scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School, and others.
Alyssa Casey is enamored with all things paper. At UC Berkeley, she majored in Fine Art and Biology and minored in Geography. From there, Casey went on to study with papermaking masters Vict貌ria Rabal in Capellades, Spain, Roberto Mannino in Rome, Italy, Professor Kamori in S茫o Paulo, Brazil, and Paul Wong of Dieu Donn茅 Papermill in New York. In 2012, Casey completed a residency at the Museu Mol铆 Paperer de Capellades, a living museum of papermaking in Capellades, Spain, where she experimented with over beaten abaca, cotton, pine, and sisal, taught a three day paper casting workshop, and compiled an online archive of the antique papermills of the region. She currently lives in Berkeley, California where she is part of the Bay Area based art collective 鈥渟ub set.鈥�
Crystal Gregory is a sculptor whose work investigates textile structure through a variety of materials. She was granted a Full Merit Scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from its Fiber and Material Studies Department. In 2013 Gregory was awarded The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and moved to Amsterdam as an Artist-In-Residence at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art. She has shown in galleries nationally and abroad and has received residency fellowships at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and La Maison des m茅tiers d鈥檃rt de Qu茅bec. Gregory lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at Tyler School of Art in the Fiber and Material Studies Department.
View the performance Disruption, by Alexandra Ben-Abba and join exhibition curator, Rebecca Pristoop and artists Alexandra Ben-Abba, Alyssa Casey, and Crystal Gregory on a tour of the exhibition Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance. Pristoop will introduce the show, describe its genesis in conjunction with Gregory, and together with Ben-Abba and Casey, discuss the works on view. They will address the use of craft materials in each piece and consider each artist鈥檚 devotion to, or destruction of, traditional craft practices.
Rebecca Pristoop is a New York-based curator and art historian. Since 2005 she has organized exhibitions in alternative and non-profit art spaces in New York City. Pristoop has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Jewish Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Tang Museum and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her research and exhibitions. She holds an MA in art history from New York University鈥檚 Institute of Fine Arts.
Alexandra Ben-Abba is a New York-based artist originally trained in glass and ceramics. Her work employs performance, video, and interactive installation as means to engage with process. Ben-Abba holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She had a solo show at Slag Gallery in 2014 and her honors include a grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Bronfman Scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School, and others.
Alyssa Casey is enamored with all things paper. At UC Berkeley, she majored in Fine Art and Biology and minored in Geography. From there, Casey went on to study with papermaking masters Vict貌ria Rabal in Capellades, Spain, Roberto Mannino in Rome, Italy, Professor Kamori in S茫o Paulo, Brazil, and Paul Wong of Dieu Donn茅 Papermill in New York. In 2012, Casey completed a residency at the Museu Mol铆 Paperer de Capellades, a living museum of papermaking in Capellades, Spain, where she experimented with over beaten abaca, cotton, pine, and sisal, taught a three day paper casting workshop, and compiled an online archive of the antique papermills of the region. She currently lives in Berkeley, California where she is part of the Bay Area based art collective 鈥渟ub set.鈥�
Crystal Gregory is a sculptor whose work investigates textile structure through a variety of materials. She was granted a Full Merit Scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from its Fiber and Material Studies Department. In 2013 Gregory was awarded The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and moved to Amsterdam as an Artist-In-Residence at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art. She has shown in galleries nationally and abroad and has received residency fellowships at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and La Maison des m茅tiers d鈥檃rt de Qu茅bec. Gregory lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at Tyler School of Art in the Fiber and Material Studies Department.
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