School of Visual Arts professor's work on display in New York City gallery show

NEW YORK — Bonnie Collura, professor of art, will have two sculptures on display as part of “The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Show,” which opens on April 26.

The exhibit is on display at BravinLee Programs, a contemporary art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, from April 26 through May 12. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Collura, who joined the Penn State faculty in 2007, has been exhibiting her multi-media sculptures, figurative textiles and outdoor works for more than 20 years both domestically and internationally. She is the recipient of several high-profile pedagogical and professional awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

On display at BravinLee will be two Collura textile sculptures titled “Spirit Sack” and “Walking Talisman,” as part of the show, which features more than 100 works created by 61 artists from around the world.

“Like technologists of a largely overlooked past, the exhibition’s creators prize a set of analog processes during an age dominated by the internet. In a world filled with countless images—and with images referring to images—that are captured, edited, and published at hyper speeds, their contributions help establish the idea of a handmade and newly subversive kind of “software.” Eschewing presentations of “content” that are digital, cold, remote and exploitative, the exhibition features artworks warmed by the heat of a medium that is exceedingly familiar yet frequently turned surprising and novel through its universality,” Christian Viveros-Fauné wrote in a release by the gallery.

For more information on the show and the gallery, visit bravinlee.com