DARCY FALK: Regarding Privilege

September 23 – November 2, 2023 in the Project Gallery

Opening Reception: September 23

• Members’ Preview: 5-6 pm
• Public Reception: 6-8 pm

Artist Talk: October 17, 6:30 pm

When a year ago I started this embroidery project with a quote from Langston Hughes that struck me as utterly beautiful, I realized something important: though my formal education and continued learning has been omnivorous and varied, there are gaps, especially when it comes to material outside of a normative point of view. I’d never read or studied Hughes’ work; stitching it allowed me to appreciate the beauty and rhythm of the words in a slow, contemplative manner. – Darcy Falk

In Regarding Privilege, Falk exhibits embroidered artworks that address white privilege by exhibiting the backside of the embroideries as the primary message. Each embroidery is accompanied by a mirror, so that the words can be read over the shoulder of the viewer, with their back turned toward the message. The embroidered quotes are by prominent Black politicians, writers, activists, and others, and are rendered in the artist’s handwriting using embroidery on cloth.

Image credit: Darcy Falk | Blue cloud cloth, Langston Hughes | 2020 | embroidered textile | 20” x 24”