Repeat Repeat

Incorporating a broad range of materials, processes, and ideas, the work of Deborah Davidson, Audrey Goldstein, Randal Thurston and Debra Weisberg reflect on how a dedicated studio practice based on iteration and curiosity evolves over time.

Creativity is a process of transformation. Marks are drawn, stitched and formed, then erased, redrawn, restitched and reformed while ideas are considered, altered and refined. Over time - an hour, a day or months, the work finds its footing as its path and meaning become more clear. While the physical act of making and remaking plays out hundreds of times over the course of a single work’s creation, another equally important activity is taking place. By turns quarrelsome and conciliatory, the interior conversation we have with ourselves and the work we bring into being is full of questions, doubts and discoveries. 

By the time a work is shown, its making and meaning become part of a larger story. Draped from a ceiling, hung on a wall or lain on a floor, it is both a record of our labors and an echo of ourselves. Close by and distant, artifact and talisman, part of us and apart from us, what we have made is now deeply steeped in memory.