Mimi Graminski:
In Color

Artist: Mimi Graminski

Duration: April 16th, 2022 - June 12th, 2022

Unison Arts is excited to present Mimi Czajka Graminski’s explorations of color through drawing, sculpture, and installation. Colors rouse memory; form remakes experience.

In Color encapsulates three bodies of work by Graminski and captures the threads between color and form, sense and memory, work as practice. Drawings rendered in ‘hot’ colors and languid, intuitive swirls-as-lines and circles mark her own childhood in the 1960s, the upheaval, change, and progress, the social, shared memories of that time. Laconic, free-form crocheted works weave together doll clothes, some she made in her youth. They stitch together one woman’s childhood and work and blossom into a sustained critique of gendered labor.

Finally, in a third, performative body of work, Graminski uses the same colors, similar forms, and translucent materials pinned and folded to make a sculptural installation that will, over the course of the exhibition, fill out a gallery space. Graminski builds more forms in the installation each week. Her performative exploration will expand the material and commemorative quality of sense memory in Unison’s gallery spaces. 

Together the works in this exhibition speak to our shared memories that connect us to each other, as critique, in stories.

In speaking of Graminski’s work, poet, Penelope Hyde Levine says:

“The work transforms the memories as well as freezes them in time. They are both trapped and blooming. There is a shift back and forth between happy memories and a memory that catches. The personal emotional charge is transferred from the artist into the work where it organically blossoms outward.”

Unison's programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.