January White Sale
Loretta Howard Gallery
New York, New York
January 13 – February 12, 2011

Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody

January White Sale was a playful and elegant exhibition curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, bringing together over 50 artists whose works explored and celebrated the color white in all its shades and materials. From the purest titanium to aged ivory, the exhibition transformed the gallery into a surreal field of texture and nuance—where white became anything but blank.

Our contribution was an artwork titled White Wound. The piece featured a hand-sewn linen textile gifted to us by our dear friend Aif Ritcher (Rome), who had taught Steven to sew in college and helped us find our first shared studio. The exterior of the piece was restrained and refined, but when opened, it revealed a clustered composition of beaded pins embedded in looped trimmings—spilling out like a frozen explosion. These internal structures were beautiful, yet precarious—geode-like wounds in the process of healing.

To us, the piece spoke to fragility and strength, to harm and healing. There’s something moving about acknowledging pain or damage while celebrating the recovery, the scar, the resilience. Tucked among the inner details were white trinkets salvaged from the former belt factory at the Invisible Dog Art Center, further deepening the piece’s layers of memory and materiality.

Exhibited among works by artists Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, Robert Gober, and Liza Lou, White Wound became a quiet but powerful presence—a tribute to craft, intimacy, and the personal histories woven into even the most monochrome of works.

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