An article in Hyperallergic talks about “The Pleasures of DIY Art” and Elisa D’Arrigo (CRF 2012)’s show at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
It says, “Although Martha Clippinger and Elisa D’Arrigo (CRF 2012) work in very different ways, the one thing they do share is the pleasure of making something out of disparate kinds of materials, and of evoking domesticity without cloaking it in theory.
In 2013, while on a residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, D’Arrigo began working with clay, something that she had not done since 1981. While she continues to work with a tube or coil, which is a basic clay form, she also persists in pushing it in new directions.
Working in a modest scale with commonplace materials, while taking pleasure in the act of making, Clippinger and D’Arrigo find ways to pull us into the domain of emotion, which can be unsettling, embarrassing, and funny. I prefer that to the latest illustration of an institutionally approved theory.
Martha Clippinger: pieces and Elisa D’Arrigo: in the moment continue at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery (529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through May 11.”
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