(re)current

For the month of March, the Harrison Gallery is featuring (re)current, Kate Oberreich’s mixed media artwork, including watercolor and acrylic paintings, cyanotype, embroidery, and collage.

Symbolism plays a vital role in Oberreich’s work. (re)current uses water and house imagery to explore themes surrounding the theme of home and community. “I’ve always been fascinated with how people get from one place to another and in the way that they move somewhere and create a home,” says Oberreich. The water imagery becomes a reference to travel, navigation, and journeying from one place to another.

Oberreich has incorporated a variety of materials into her work: fabrics and textiles that she embroiders onto painted canvas, cyanotype scraps, and recycled materials such as old tarps that she has repurposed. Making art out of tarps highlights Oberreich’s theme of creating a home in a literal and figurative way: “Tarps are a building material; they’re used to make shelters.” Oberreich takes this material with its own history and purpose and creates something new out of it. 

The show can be viewed anytime during the month of March in the Harrison Gallery during Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The works can also be viewed and purchased on our online gallery through April.