CERBERA GALLERY – RACHEL HUBBARD

CERBERA GALLERY – RACHEL HUBBARD explores the wistfulness of personal connections to historical domestic objects. With a background in fashion, art history and education, she explores relationships of fine art, craft, and design in the disciplines of drawing, ceramics, and fiber. Drawing on Midwestern roots and ties to rural farm life, she reflects on ways of life based on collections and artifacts. Hubbard’s interest in material culture is its ability to tell a story of social and political landscape. Whereas much of material culture in contemporary society exists in the digital realm, with obtrusive pop-up ads and throw-away commodities, material culture of the past offers a tactile means to reexamine history and attempt to make connections to our current state. Objects from past generations now may seem as novelties with outmoded forms of technologies. Hubbard seeks symbiosis in the relationship of surfaces to forms and address the hierarchy of importance between the form itself and the image or decoration on the form. *Please note this exhibition will take place at Cerbera Galleries located at 2011 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108.