A site-specific collaboration between artists Claudia Mastrobuono and Jodi Stevens, Limen pays homage to the natural environment of Colorado’s Pikes Peak Region through mastery of common industrial materials. Within this constructed, immersive environment, experience the ways in which the artists investigate the notion of boundary, suggesting limits and frontier, the container and the contained.
Visit GOCA 1420 on the UCCS campus Jan 27–March 18 to view a second site-specific installation from these artists.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CLAUDIA MASTROBUONO is an installation artist with a background in fiber and clay, I often marry the two materials, creating a dynamic relationship between tension and weight. Most recently, I have been investigating the idea of visual tension, using pattern both on flat surface and three-dimensionally.
I decorate the ordinary, allowing the viewer access by using familiar objects and materials. My work deals with personal conflict between the desire for domestic foundation and the need to fulfill personal goals. I struggle with my role as a woman, daughter, partner and artist. I translate this fight visually, creating noise and tension with material and pattern.
The desire for domesticity versus the need for change and growth within my studio practice has been an ongoing battle for me. I use pattern to create visual tension, representing the push and pull that I feel between my work and personal life. My practice is contemplative, allowing me to think while I make, which while informing the work, is also cathartic.
Time and place heavily influence my work. Because I work in both fiber and clay, I often switch between the two materials, contingent on facilities or site-specific needs. This gives me parameters while allowing the work to remain organic. claudiamastrobuono.com
JODI STEVENS received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textiles from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina in 2006 and completed her MFA in Fibers in 2010, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She currently resides in New Bedford, MA and has shown work in Canada, various locations in the U.S., and more extensively throughout Massachusetts.
Stevens has been a visiting artist in residence for programs in Colorado and Massachusetts. She has directed workshops and participated in textile-based educational outreach programs through museum partnerships and commissions, including the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA and the Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, New York. She is currently the Lead Curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery located in Westport, Massachusetts. jodistevensart.com
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