College of the Redwoods is showing “Gathering Resources – A Multi-media Exploration of Body Dysmorphia and Personal Healing,” an exhibit of work by Shelbi Schroeder, through March 27 in the Floyd Bettiga Gallery in the new Creative Arts Complex. A public reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday, March 6, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Schroeder will present a hands-on, public art-making workshop, “Piecing Together: Personal History Eggshell Mosaics,” on March 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. This exhibition includes sculptures, audio recordings, photographs and, yes, eggshells.
“Gathering Resources” is a set of two- and three-dimensional interactive artworks about the process of growing beyond toxic situations and ideologies. The work in this exhibit transforms misunderstandings and contradictions through re-identification, into healing. The show includes an installation from the artist’s ongoing work, “The Body Project.
” This wall piece is comprised of over 2,000 Instax images of body fragments. The images were captured by a variety of individuals exploring parts of their own unique, beautiful bodies as part of a structured course of healing designed by Schroeder. A large-scale, abstracted figure is also part of the exhibition.
Schroeder painted the image on canvas using her own physical body as the painting tool, then painstakingly stitched and mosaiced over the image using fragile eggshells to deliver a work that is at once powerful and delicate. Schroeder grew up in Sio.