The rocks of New England are over 500 million years old. Across Massachusetts we dispose of over 230,000 tons of textiles annually.  Somerville artist Danielle Krcmar creates objects that mimic the region’s landscapes using second-hand clothing, including worn and moth-eaten sweaters, yarn, and miscellaneous threads. Krcmar cuts, pieces, and sews to create soft sculpted rocks, velvety mosses, grasses and other greenery. In what Krcmar calls Post Consumer Terrain sculptures, these soft objects tease gravity, compressing geological epochs with textile weightlessness, slow formation with consumer velocity. Krcmar’s installation for the 301 Frame Gallery, Teasing Gravity, holds the tension between persistence and play, inviting viewers to reconsider both the enduring and the disposable in the landscapes we inhabit.

Danielle Krcmar is an artist and curator of the RSM Gallery at Bentley University. She earned her BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Binghamton and an MFA in sculpture from UMASS Amherst. She has received grants from the St Botolph Club Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Blanche Colman Foundation, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. She has completed architectural sculpture commissions in Ridgeway, Illinois and Knoxville TN, and created outdoor installations for the Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, Forest Hills Cemetery, and the Fort Point Channel area of Boston. Her work has been featured in Ocean State Review and Quilting with a Modern Slant in addition to having been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, and Arts Media.