If We Only Knew Now What They Knew Then, Works by Melanie Crader and Katy Heinlein 

July 29-September 9, 2010

Houston Arts Alliance - space125gallery presents the exhibition If We Only Knew Now What They Knew Then, Works by Melanie Crader and Katy Heinlein.  Opening Reception Thursday, July 29, 2010, at 5:30 pm.  On view through Friday, September 9, 2010.

Melanie Crader - A native of Louisiana, now residing in Houston, Crader explores fashion, gender, social class and identity. This body of work, which she has named Take Away Project, offers a series of printed stories which viewers are encouraged to take with them. Crader believes stories change from teller to listener, thus creating a fractured narrative, giving each story a life of its own.

Katy Heinlein - By creating simple and theatrical sculptures, Heinlein generates interplay between gravity, tension and movement. She uses cloth as her medium because it can be both vague and suggestive, as well as partially revealing. Her work is about mystery and obscurity, the seen and unseen.