Kasia Ozga
Wear Out: Manual Labor
Kasia Ozga
Wear Out: Manual Labor
Kasia Ozga
Friday
12–4pm
Near the Italian Labor Center above the Beauty Bar, 231 East 14th Street
Saturday
12–4pm
Across the street from DC 9, 45 West 14th Street
Sunday
12–4pm
Across the street from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237, 216 West 14th Street
These flags have been produced by Kasia Ozga from 2020-present out of used blue-collar work-wear. The abstract flags retain elements of the worn clothing from which they are sewn: openings in the form of former collars, pockets, pant legs, and sleeves sway in the wind and allow viewers to inhabit the artworks. Stains, holes, and evidence of mending and repair overtake buttons, standardized logos and neatly hemmed sleeves and pant legs. In a gig economy in which working-class labor is alternately ignored, derided, and prized, these surfaces sewn from worker garments assert pride in our common industrial heritage.
Polish French American artist Kasia Ozga reuses, revalues, and reanimates mass-produced materials into singular artworks and inverts associations we make with different types of waste. An Assistant Professor of Sculpture at UNCG, she has shown widely, completed numerous public artworks and received grants and residencies in and beyond the US.
kasiaozga.com@KasiaOzgaArt