Around the age of eighty, after nearly sixty years as a designer, Janette Laverrière began making "useless things." This exhibition examines five artists who re-invent, re-imagine, and re-purpose the use, meaning and worth of functional objects in daily life and domestic space. The result of these endeavors often begins with the implication of a utilitarian object: a vessel, a newspaper, a handkerchief, a mirror. However, by denying their primary identity, these objects change from implying a use we know to registering as "useless" or non-functional, and acquire a new use dictated by the artist.
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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