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Eff - shorthand for effigy and also short-shorthand for the colloquial "f," as in fuck – leads these new works in a summoning of states of passion, self-possession, and responsive activity.

While some works in the Eff series are direct tributes to actual individuals (track star Flo Jo, poet/activist Adrienne Rich, activist/librarian Barbara Gittings), the works in this exhibition focus less on individuals and more on states of being. Colorfully loud and wall-based, the works employ textile processes such as dyeing, printing, masking, patterning, negative and positive image …