Exhibition
Location
Experimental Gallery
Tjaden Hall
M–F, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Reception
Thursday, April 23, 5–7 p.m.
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Abstract
Through weaving, quilting, clay, and assemblage, Marissa Cote materializes visions of queer utopia. By engaging sites of labor such as construction and the loom, she sculpts architectures of longing and belonging. Informed by the creation of inner and collective utopias, her sculptural visions of queer futurity mimic dwellings, built environments, and vanishing points. Cote’s practice materially and conceptually embodies her work and visions towards queerness. The Moon Went With Her presents a horizon as a site of hope, risk, and disappointment, and as glimpses of utopia.
Biography
Marissa Cote
Marissa Cote is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ithaca, NY. She is a Creative Visual Arts M.F.A. candidate for 2026 at Cornell University. Cote earned a B.F.A. in Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2018. She was recently a Fellow at Clark University’s Low Residency M.F.A. program. In 2023, Cote mounted her first solo exhibition, I promise to stay in touch, at the Distillery Gallery in Boston. Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at Tilton Gallery (New York, NY), Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket, RI), Fort Point Community Arts Gallery (Boston, MA), and New Alliance Gallery (Somerville, MA).
