Mauery work selected for London exhibition

The work “thin.red.line.portrait” by Andrea “Andy” Mauery, a University of Maine sculptor and associate professor of art, was selected as one of 50 pieces for the international exhibit “CHROMA: Red Issue” in London.

This is the first in a series of “CHROMA” curatorial experiments, beginning at London’s Safehouse 1, Jan. 22–24, featuring a collection of works made in isolation from one another with a color being the only commonality.

According to the organizers, the exhibits will explore “the conversations the works can and are forced to have through their curation, and what elements of association are generated to form a narrative or dialogue.”

The show will experiment with “the possibilities of language as a response to something inherently visual, and the relationship between this collective chromatic discourse and each individual work.”

“CHROMA: Red Issue” also will be a publication. The exhibition and publication will showcase works in response to “red” as a word, color, feeling, experience, sensation, signal — and more.

Mauery’s work, created in 2015, is a 69-inch line of red dyed, human hair pinched with lead sinkers. Her material choices often reference the body; she groups drawings, objects and installations in an exploration/investigation of recurring subjects or problems (extinction, mortality, boundaries, etc.). She tries to pin down identity and mortality, and the line at which a thing ceases to be.