The Gainesville Fine Arts Association in Gainesville, FL presents What Remains./?, a solo exhibition of fiber works by AnnaBrooke Hill Greene, an interdisciplinary artist from South Georgia.

 

Greene's first fiber solo exhibition explores the persistence of feminized aesthetic tropes through material deconstruction. Long fascinated by domestic decoration, Greene creates wall works and installations utilizing personal and second-hand domestic textiles such as curtains, pillow cases, and upholstery fabric to examine the spaces the materials come from and the memory and history they hold. By meticulously altering found materials through actions of care and labor such as sewing, washing, and combing, she prompts a consideration of the material’s power as recognized symbols of traditional gender norms.

 

As the works in the exhibition rely on processes that (un)make, the show’s title, What Remains./?, poses as both a statement and a series of questions about these processes. What Remains./? asks:  what is left behind, what stays the same, and what simultaneously does both? This active questioning is something that drives Greene's practice as she investigates material phenomenology through personal memory and action based interventions. What Remains./? intermingles domestic ornamentation of floral imagery from the early 1990's to today through caste valances, cut curtains, unravelled bedding, and framed remnants of upholstery fabrics left behind.

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Anchoring the exhibition is a collection of unraveled and framed remnants of household textiles. Ranging in color from rich reds, mustard browns, and soft pinks, the textiles reference aesthetic tropes through consistent floral patterning such as rose clusters and daisy vines. Unraveled by hand, the materials hang cascading out of a series of embroidery frames, establishing them as decorative objects. Although unwoven, the imagery on the materials remains present. The laborious process used to unravel the textiles empowers Greene’s aesthetic expressions of persistence and loss as they relate to memory, time, and the conventional ideologies within domestic spaces that the patterns represent.

 

What Remains./? will be on display from June 18th through June 21st, 2025. A public reception will be held June 20th from 5-8pm, followed by an artist talk and hands-on fiber collage workshop on June 21st at 11am. Both events are free and open to the public.​
 

Greene’s work is in the collections of the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA and the Colquitt County Arts Center, Moultrie, GA. Recent projects include an Artist-in-Residency at Thomasville Center for the Arts (Thomasville, GA) and group exhibitions at the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Pen + Brush (New York, NY), and Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN). Greene currently lives and works in Augusta, GA as a Lecturer for the Department of Art & Design at Augusta University.