Dawline, 2019, Linen, Cotton, Rope, Gold and Silver Leaf, Metal Clasps and Rings, Wood, Stones, Acrylic, Enamel
May 21 - January 23, 2022
The Carrying Stones Project, from artist Sawyer Rose, shines a light on the systemic and pervasive inequalities that working women face, including the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these disproportionate labor loads. The artworks in this show portray the deeply personal work stories of a diverse group of women and are accompanied by the data that tells a bigger story. The women profiled are a mix of ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, occupations, and socio-economic statuses.
More about The Carrying Stones Project
The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms. The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, races, orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses.
New Museum Los Gatos is honored to present The Carrying Stones Project because of its transformational study of these themes, making the personal political—publicly visualizing the layered elements of women’s work with weight and substance.
Sawyer Rose is a sculptor, installation and social practice artist. Born and raised in North Carolina and a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, she currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Throughout her career, Rose has used her artwork to shine a spotlight on contemporary social and ecological issues. Her work on The Carrying Stones Project addresses women’s work inequity and has been featured by Ms. Magazine and Bust Magazine.
Rose has been a resident artist at MASS MoCA, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco, Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.
She has been awarded merit grants from The Creative Capacity Fund, The Awesome Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, ArtistGrant.org, and The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation.
