June 4 - July 24, 2027
108|Contemporary is proud to present the work of Sally C. Garner in a solo exhibition June 4 – July 24, 2027. This exhibition reflects on the intricate relationship between humanity and the environment, engaging with themes of ecological social justice and uncontrollable forces of nature.
Exhibition Opening:
Friday, June 4, 2027 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
About the artist:
Sally C. Garner is a fiber artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been creating fiber sculptures and installation works ever since first learning that her love of fiber could inform her sculptural work at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. From a series of art that was first conceived in school, Sally crocheted art installations using non-traditional fibers like VHS tape to create works that incorporate both the nostalgia associated with traditional crocheting and the contemporary appeal for artwork that abstracts metaphors of memory and enchants the senses.
After graduating with an BFA in Studio Art, Sculpture in 2013, she continued to live, work, and create art in the mountains of North Carolina until 2020, when she decided to earn her masters degree. In 2023, Sally completed her MFA in Studio Art, Textiles at Georgia State University, in Atlanta, GA, where she experimented in fiber and textile techniques that were previously unavailable to her — weaving, wet-felting, knitting via machine, fabric dyeing and machine sewing. It was during this time that she began seeking a connection between humanity and the environment with her artwork, taking a critical eye to the changes we have tried to make so far. Weaving has become the primary tool that she wants to explore this concept with because of its symbolic connection to knowledge and technology.
Sally has shown her work nationally and internationally, in group and solo exhibitions. Her work has received awards from International Sculpture Center, Fiber Art Now, National Basketry Organization, and Surface Design Association, among others. Recently, she was the Fibers Artist in Residence at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee. During the year-long residency, she taught courses at Tennessee Tech University, taught and assisted workshops at the craft center, and worked as the fibers studio technician, all while expanding upon her current body of work, the Symbiosis series. Sally currently teaches foundational art courses part-time at Tulsa Community College and consults for a grant-funded visual art project as the artist-in-residence at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK.