Shards & Scraps
A Reflection on Personal Connections to Glass Vessels and Food
The artwork in Shards & Scraps reflects on Sarah Godfrey’s personal connections to glass and food throughout her life. Her smaller paintings study the interaction of light with glass plus the physical representations of peeling fruit, while larger multi-surface paintings study repaired and broken glass objects used in foodservice and preparation. Large-format photographs tower over viewers and broken glass installations challenge you to assess the line between beauty and danger. Through Godfrey’s education at Iowa State, her work has transformed into a reflective narrative about her connections with glass vessels, from childhood until the present. In recent years, her studio practice has changed due to personal observations of the quantity of food waste made. Within the exhibition, food transforms into a medium of expression that gives participants opportunities to be more mindful of the waste they produce in their own homes.
Due to the changes that occurred around the world in the Spring of 2020 due to COVID-19 the MFA Thesis Exhibition of Shards & Scraps transitioned from being exhibited at the Design on Main gallery in Ames, IA, to a virtual exhibition from a living space, to allow visitors to view the exhibition from the comfort of their home.
For the duration of the exhibition daily posts were made to Sarah Godfrey's Instagram, and the exhibition reception was held through Instagram Live.
Thank you for visiting the virtual exhibition of Shards & Scraps.
On this page, you can scroll through various mediums of work I developed for my MFA Thesis Exhibition and tour the space. Whether you're using a computer or mobile device, you can select an image from any section to both expand the image and learn more about individual work before scrolling through the rest of that portion of the show.
