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WEAVING AMBIGUITY
Slemmons Gallery
July 11, 2025 – September 12, 2025
Weaving Ambiguity, a new solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Bethany Cordero, traces the evolving contours of identity through a material-based inquiry into impermanence. Cordero’s practice centers on the ambiguity and tension found within transitional relationships, particularly those shaped by intergenerational dynamics. Her sculptural works and drawings explore how power, dependence, and autonomy shift over time, influenced by age, care, expectation, and inevitability. Through the lens of existential reflection, she examines how these relational structures evolve, dissolve, and re-form—revealing the fluid, impermanent nature of being. Working with materials such as bronze, clay, steel, and fiber, Cordero chooses processes that embody transformation: casting, welding, and weaving serve not only as techniques but as metaphors for becoming, unraveling, and adaptation. These materials are pushed to reflect the emotional and physical realities of time—resilient yet susceptible, enduring yet mutable. In this way, the work engages in a conversation between form and meaning, where materiality echoes the fragile balance between what is solid and what slips away. The sculptures and drawings in this exhibition function as studies in impermanence—marking the quiet, continual shifts we experience as we move through different phases of identity, responsibility, and relational connection. Each piece is a meditation on the slow choreography of change: how roles reverse, how the body alters, how power is given and taken back, how memory and experience shape perception. There is a constant negotiation between holding on and letting go. Ultimately, Cordero’s work contemplates the inevitability of change as a fundamental condition of existence—one that reshapes our identities, relationships, and sense of self over time. Through material and form, she invites reflection on the passage of time, the complexity of care, and the universal transience that defines what it means to be in relation with oneself and others.
RSVP for the opening reception on Friday, August 1st from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the link below:
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
WEAVING AMBIGUITY
Slemmons Gallery
July 11, 2025 – September 12, 2025
Weaving Ambiguity, a new solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Bethany Cordero, traces the evolving contours of identity through a material-based inquiry into impermanence. Cordero’s practice centers on the ambiguity and tension found within transitional relationships, particularly those shaped by intergenerational dynamics. Her sculptural works and drawings explore how power, dependence, and autonomy shift over time, influenced by age, care, expectation, and inevitability. Through the lens of existential reflection, she examines how these relational structures evolve, dissolve, and re-form—revealing the fluid, impermanent nature of being. Working with materials such as bronze, clay, steel, and fiber, Cordero chooses processes that embody transformation: casting, welding, and weaving serve not only as techniques but as metaphors for becoming, unraveling, and adaptation. These materials are pushed to reflect the emotional and physical realities of time—resilient yet susceptible, enduring yet mutable. In this way, the work engages in a conversation between form and meaning, where materiality echoes the fragile balance between what is solid and what slips away. The sculptures and drawings in this exhibition function as studies in impermanence—marking the quiet, continual shifts we experience as we move through different phases of identity, responsibility, and relational connection. Each piece is a meditation on the slow choreography of change: how roles reverse, how the body alters, how power is given and taken back, how memory and experience shape perception. There is a constant negotiation between holding on and letting go. Ultimately, Cordero’s work contemplates the inevitability of change as a fundamental condition of existence—one that reshapes our identities, relationships, and sense of self over time. Through material and form, she invites reflection on the passage of time, the complexity of care, and the universal transience that defines what it means to be in relation with oneself and others.
RSVP for the opening reception on Friday, August 1 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the link below:
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
Bethany Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied sculpture and fiber and material studies. With a focus on clay, fiber, and metal, her work investigates how materials transform, decay, and adapt over time, reflecting the evolving nature of selfhood and experience. She creates sculptural forms that embody resilience and transformation, drawing on both philosophical inquiry and tactile experimentation. She has exhibited widely across Chicago, with features in Surface Design and Chicago Life Magazine. Recently, she completed a four month residency at Oak Park Art League, culminating in a solo show, alongside her participation in the Hyde Park Art Center’s Bridge Program. She currently teaches sculpture both in person and online, and is part of the Hyde Park Art Center’s 2025 CENTER Program, with upcoming group and solo exhibitions this year
Bethany Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied sculpture and fiber and material studies. With a focus on clay, fiber, and metal, her work investigates how materials transform, decay, and adapt over time, reflecting the evolving nature of selfhood and experience. She creates sculptural forms that embody resilience and transformation, drawing on both philosophical inquiry and tactile experimentation. She has exhibited widely across Chicago, with features in Surface Design and Chicago Life Magazine. Recently, she completed a four month residency at Oak Park Art League, culminating in a solo show, alongside her participation in the Hyde Park Art Center’s Bridge Program. She currently teaches sculpture both in person and online, and is part of the Hyde Park Art Center’s 2025 CENTER Program, with upcoming group and solo exhibitions this year
