BRETTE GABEL

Large scale installation (40’x12’)

Patchwork wall, rug. tables and couch. digital surveillance, domesticity, paranoia and is loosely inspired by militarized camouflage.

The work was designed and installed as a part of Re-Joyce: Wieland for The New Millennium Co-curated by Christina Battle, Amy Fung, Allyson Mitchell, Ariel Smith

8’x30’ patchwork quilt, natural dyes made with foraged plants and refuse found in Toronto.

created for Here: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists curated by Swapnaa Tamhane at Aga Khan Museum

A series of baby blankets using the Maritime distress flag alphabet to spell MAYDAY. This work was a direct response to birth of my child and my new found role in motherhood.

Hand Dyed with natural homemade dye.

exhibited:

Home is Where You’re Happy

Dunlop Art Gallery , Regina Sk.

curated by: Blair Fornwald

Waving and Wavering

Maryland Artplace, Baltimore, MD

curated by: Alexander Jarman

Inflatable patchwork house on kitchen table

machine embroidery on paper

hand embroidery on hand dyed cotton

The farmhouse in an ongoing interrogation of my childhood home, exploring generational trauma, memory and nostalgia.

exhibited:

Home is Where You’re Happy

Dunlop Art Gallery

Curated by Blair Fornwald

Sometimes the Story is Obvious

Artspace, Peterborough, Ont.

Curated by Jonathan Lockyer

Created in 2013 as a part of my MFA thesis work at OCAD University.

11’ tall inflatable house on a timer set to deflate and inflate in intervals.

To see a video of the house click here

a small sample of work created 2006-2014

nightmare quilts, wall hangings and early embroidery work

3”x 4” embroidery