
Hands on Fire brings together Judy Mannarino, JoAnne McFarland, Farah Mohammad, and Karen J. Revis around the physicality and energy of handiwork — collaging, stitching, glazing, firing, cutting, and printing. Mannarino constructs intimately scaled porcelain objects referencing floral corsages, each a richly worked repository of memory and sentiment. McFarland assembles found papers — wallpaper, book pages, antique sheet music, silk — into dress-shaped collages that map psychological and political states onto the female silhouette. Revis carves and layers linoleum, collagraph, and etching into powerful printmaking that transforms the history of slavery and capitalism into exultant imagery rooted in African design. Together the works amplify the intersection of women's inner lives with the challenges and triumphs of the external world.