About This Item:

Rocks + Wool

2020

“The Weight of Resistance (2020) is comprised of rocks I collected on the shores of Lake Erie, and then felted. My thinking hands considered the way wool holds, softens, and articulates the curves of these rocks, that are smoothed over millennia by tumbling against the resistance of great tides. The metaphor for how we resist violence, environmental collapse, ignorance, meanness, smallness, and hate, is implied here, too. I need to believe there’s still in us a laudable, and deeply humane, yearning for a better life for all living things.”

-Rebecca Cross

Rebecca Cross exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including in NYC, Sweden, Paris, Budapest and Nagoya, Japan. Memory is a central concern in Cross’s work, which is made primarily in silk and paper. She is fascinated by mining the ephemeral potential of transformed materials, where line is made by shadows and delicate forms hold the memory of solid objects.Her research includes a deep engagement with the arts of all forms, reading literature, writing poetry, listening to music, deepening her understanding of the capacities of fibers and dye, being outdoors in every season, and apprehending large bodies of water. Recent exhibitions include Intrinsic Momentum with Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Isabel Farnsworth at the American Greetings Corporation W Gallery (Cleveland) in January 2019, and a solo exhibition, Suspended Animations, at Studio M at the Massillon Art Museum in Massilon, Ohio (2021).