Cut & Paste Fashion Designer Marlene Housner, Foxborough, to Exhibit @ American Fine Craft Show @ Brooklyn Museum Nov. 19-20

Marlene Housner, CUT and PASTE ARTwear, Foxborough, Mass., joins 89 other artisans and artists at the fourth American Fine Craft Show at Brooklyn Museum November 19-20. She mixes patterns with a painter’s sensibility, in collage style, in the jackets, vests, tunics, satchels and pouches she creates.

The show is produced and curated by An American Craftsman Galleries that has supported crafts artists since 1982, longer than any other gallery in New York City, representing the work of over 500 from across the country.

On her website Housner writes: “Tapping into an extensive vocabulary that includes the antique and traditional in merger with the new and unusual, and the ceremonial in confluence with everyday lifestyle, I take a painter's revisionist approach to clothing construction, adding and subtracting elements until arriving at the rightful and sublime.

“Admixtures of fabrics are cut and pieced, overlapping into collage compositions of wearable reversible forms = tunix, jax, vesties and bagettes [luxurious velvets, luminous silks, intricate jacquards]. Within the context of my art training and studio experience as painter, stage, and costume designer, my work is inspired by Asian and the American southwest styles of dress.

“As collectibles, my pieces have been installed as wall art on unique copper/branch hangers.”

The craft show is timed for holiday shopping but not too close to Hanukah and Christmas giving visitors the treat of taking in the magnificent current and long-term exhibitions at the Museum. Concurrent special exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum include “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty;” “Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals;” “Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller” and a ticketed exhibition, “Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present,” $16 at the admissions desk.

For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.

Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm

Tickets: Cash only at entrance: Adults - $16.00 Seniors -$14.00 Students - $10.00 Museum members with membership card - $8 Children under 10-Free. Online: $12 for everyone until Nov. 10 and $14 after that. http://www.americanfinecraftshowbrooklyn.com

Tickets Include general admission to Brooklyn Museum