“Prized” by Colleen Plumb, is inspired by materials found in the TSL bookstore: a box of Kodachrome stereo slides blasting colors from a 50’s family and their luxurious travels around the globe, with taffeta, furs, daughters, weddings, and parties. And Glass Lantern Slides from 1905, of hunters and their kill by ‘Travelogue’ creator, Burton Holmes.
An exploration into evidence: individuals and bodies, abandoned archives, what survives, what is objectified, cruelty, worth, and contradiction.
“Mend” by Diane Schaefer, is:
The cycle of use and repair.
The work of necessity and love.
Text, photographs, and a small vintage clothing shop.
Spare text-voices explore the historical, relentless and intimate nature of wear and our choices to repair or dismiss. Large-format photographs of baskets, clothing, and cornhusk figurines from the TSL archives present as guardians through a long passage to a shop of mended antique clothing. The little shop provides a tactile experience of mending done by anonymous sewers long ago, as well as a small team working now to save each piece.
Colleen Plumb makes photographs, videos, and installations investigating contradictory relationships people have with animals to increase empathy and unity across species and within our own. Plumb sheds light on human consumption of the natural world in order to bring attention to implicit values of society as a whole, particularly those that perpetuate power imbalance and tyranny of artifice. Her books, Animals Are Outside Today (2011) and Thirty Times a Minute (2020), are published by Radius Books. Plumb’s work is held in several permanent collections and has been widely published and exhibited. One of her recent projects, Invisible Visible, published in Orion, reflects upon the industrial food system and meatpacking industry. Her 2021 installation, Surveilling Snow Lily, was highlighted as a Chicago must-see in ARTFORUM gallery guide. Plumb lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Diane is an artist, educator and community organizer. She writes almost every day. She is a collaborator and likes to work alone. Most of her public work has been very small mise-en-scene photographs and drawings. Diane is a finder and collector of vintage textiles, objects and stories. She searches for the authentic and anonymous work of people who once lived. She sells these wares at markets and online.
Diane Schaefer lives and works in Buffalo, New York. She grew up in the Hudson Valley, her favorite spot in the world.
