Duality: Hard/Soft
Sat, Apr 05
|Saranac Lake
In Duality: Hard/Soft , artists Bray and Downs present work that explores the complex relationship between hard and soft. Through different mediums, subject matter, use of color, etc, both artists offer a variety of interpretations and extrapolations on the prompt.
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Saranac Lake, 24 Cedar St, Saranac Lake, NY 12983, USA
About the event
FREE, All ages
3-5PM
Light refreshments will be served
In Duality: Hard/Soft, artists Bray and Downs present work that explores the complex relationship between hard and soft. Through different mediums, subject matter, use of color, etc, both artists offer a variety of interpretations and extrapolations on the prompt.
Though they are typically depicted as opposites within a binary, hard and soft do not exist in a concrete relationship of “only one or the other”. Just as the constructed binaries projected onto gender and sexuality do not encompass our true, expansive human expression, the connotations and implications of hard and soft are not a completely accurate representation of the concepts as a whole.
“Hard” - tough, strong, solid - has historically been associated with the masculine, whereas “soft” - delicate, gentle, pleasant - implies the feminine. Bray and Downs present an exploration on the intersections between Hard and Soft with works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, and…