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Muskegon, MI 49440
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Annica Cuppetelli: Tight/Laced

Measure Twice: Sculptures of Ted Lott

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Annica Cuppetelli: Tight/Laced
Through September 4, 2022

The Muskegon Museum of Art presents, Annica Cuppetelli: Tight/Laced, a new exhibition on May 19. Tight/Laced is a large-scale architectural installation by Detroit-based artist and fashion designer Annica Cuppetelli, who uses clothing materials and techniques to explore the constraints and restrictions society has placed on women’s bodies throughout history.

Through wood framing, fabric, lacing, and grommets, Tight/Laced features two large architectural forms that directly reference the corset, a fashion device made to squeeze and reshape the female body to force it to conform to the tastes and ideals of the day. Through her work, Cuppetelli reveals the ongoing struggle women face for bodily autonomy.

“For hundreds of years, a woman’s body has been a battlefield where cultural, scientific, and political forces have competed for dominance over the interests of the owners of said bodies. A woman’s body is consistently a site of constriction and restriction, to wit, a corset squeezes the body to permanently change its shape, while laws limit what women can do with their own bodies. There is an inherent tension in being the owner of a woman’s body and that is the tension that I try to communicate with my work.” states Cuppetelli.

Annica Cuppetelli is a Detroit based fiber artist whose works explore the relationship of the body to clothing and the environment. Drawing on her past experiences as a fashion designer and garment maker she uses those materials and skills to question the nature of fashion and its complex relationship with identity and the female body. This exhibition, organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art, is comprised of massive sculptural forms that fill the space of the gallery, inviting a very different way of experiencing our gallery space. Woven strands comprise twin dress-like shapes that reach out from the gallery walls, guiding how the guest moves through the room and offering new perspectives from every angle.

Annica Cuppetelli was one of the featured artists in the MMA organized exhibition Innovators and Legends: Generations in Textiles and Fiber in 2012, and joined us at the opening as a guest panelist/speaker. Her collaborative work with Cristobal Mendoza was shown a few years later in the MMA organized exhibition Interference Pool. In addition to her practice as an independent and collaborative artist, Cuppetelli is a lecturer at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and an adjunct instructor at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Measure Twice: Sculptures of Ted Lott
Through September 4, 2022

Ted Lott creates sculptures that blend frame construction with furniture, creating complex yet accessible objects that play with our sense of scale, function, and design. Masterfully crafted, his pieces are inspired by the familiar utility and look of furniture and the use of concealed wood frames to create our modern buildings and homes. Merging building techniques with furniture requires accommodations to both, and in these accommodations he finds new perspectives and potentials for expression. Within his sculptures, the hidden becomes seen and the everyday becomes something new.

Measure Twice: Sculptures of Ted Lott, organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art, encompasses multiple series within Lott’s works. Guests will find architectural structures built into and upon vintage chairs, dressers, and cabinets. Lights shine out from tiny windows and walls open to reveal multi-story homes that double as cabinet shelving. Tiny homes spring from luggage, skewing our notions of home and travel, and everywhere our familiar sense of scale is challenged.

Ted Lott was recently included in Fine Woodworking Magazine and has exhibited around the U.S. Lott holds a BFA in woodworking and furniture design from Maine College of Art and a MFA in furniture design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Emma International Collaborative Conference, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Belvedere Fund for Professional Development in Crafts. Lott has also held artist residencies at several institutions, including the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

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