What an individual can fashion using bare hands is interesting given our contemporary relationship to time, manufacturing and digital culture. Craft and craftsmanship require time. Each artist included in this exhibition has adopted vernacular craft in service of making fine art. The collected results reveal personal obsessions and material phenomena.

There is also a dark side.  A common thread that can be pulled from the works presented is not just the use of craft but also craftiness, imbuing each artwork with subtext or fakery.  The virtue of a traditional craftsman is that his skill is intended to go un-noticed; his artistry should be enjoyable to the eye but not demand attention for it's own sake.  The artists here take a similar, stealthy approach.  The viewer is seduced by the visual effect of craftsmanship, and then clobbered by hint or satire that targets manufacturing, dogma, popular culture, social relationships, commerce or the mystical realms.   It is a one-two punch that is pleasing to the senses and provides intelligent insight into the preoccupations of contemporary society.