Susan Hobbs

In this exhibition, Magor presents a radical new body of work that continues her examination of class and status in the objects that comprise our everyday environment. In previous work, she used mold-making and casting to level the disparity between categories of things, thus rendering disparate objects equal. Moving away from cast replicas of trays and cutlery, Magor now repurposes an array of old, woolen blankets, grafting them together to form larger units. These “serviceable objects” have been mended or altered in various ways: holes are darned, sections are dyed, edges are ringed with cast material. These modifications, all made in the spirit of rejuvenation, have shifted the blankets from the domestic realm to that of display. Of these works, Magor has written, “I think of them as paintings when they are open and drawings when they are folded.” At the same time they are still blankets, fresh from the drycleaners, awaiting another life.