Meyer Vogl Gallery will present “INTERDISCIPLINARIAN,” a solo exhibition by Greenville-based artist Glory Day, opening Friday, Nov. 6, and remaining on view through Nov. 30.
Marking Day’s first solo exhibition outside her hometown, “INTERDISCIPLINARIAN” offers an intimate look at an artist who refuses to be confined to a single medium. Instead, she allows painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, woodworking and still life to inform one another. The exhibition brings together a body of work spanning multiple methods while reflecting the artist’s evolving practice and deep connection to craft traditions.
Having worked with Meyer Vogl Gallery for several years as a ceramicist, painter and sculptor, Day approaches the exhibition as an opportunity to bring the many facets of her practice together. Her work is deeply rooted in materiality and the hand-wrought, drawing inspiration from her family’s history in textiles and woodworking while continuing to explore the objects, arrangements and visual language of home.
“I wanted to put together a special body of work that draws the many threads of my art practice into a single chord,” Day said. “This exhibition will summate my work as I am, a maker in many materials and an artist making her way in the world.”
Across the exhibition, Day’s interest in still life and the artifacts of her home environment provides a common thread. Collected, presented, stacked or otherwise placed, everyday objects become subjects through which she explores material, memory, craftsmanship and the experience of home. Her multidisciplinary approach allows these ideas to move fluidly between mediums, creating a body of work unified not by a single material but by the artist’s distinct way of seeing and making.
Straddling her family’s craft history and her own contemporary studio practice, Day embraces the possibilities of working across disciplines.
“Straddling my family’s craft history in textiles and woodworking has been a consistent goal for my work in the last several years,” Day said. “This body of work combines my interests in materiality and the hand-wrought while continuing to speak through the visual language I have learned to love: still life and the artifacts of my home environment.”
“INTERDISCIPLINARIAN” opens at Meyer Vogl Gallery on Friday, Nov. 6, and will remain on view through Nov. 30.