Emily Oliveira Artwork on View in Millerton

On view now through April 8 at Geary gallery in Millerton is “Red Velvet, Orange Crush,” a showing of works by interdisciplinary artist Emily Oliveira.

Based in Brooklyn, Oliveira is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA candidate at Yale. Her work “frames textile labor as a devotional act, a process of blending disparate fibers into a unified and interdependent whole, of piercing the veil between realities.” Oliveira has exhibited and performed at such venues as Vox Populi, Wave Hill, BRIC, Paradice Palase, SOHO20, Ars Nova, and others.

Oliveira’s new collection of sculptural and quilted works, “Red Velvet, Orange Crush,” “capture[s] moments when the veil between worlds thins and opens, and cosmic phenomena come down to Earth,” says a mission statement. “The textile works in the exhibition take the form of orofacial ovals: these precipices and portals call to mind the moments before a figure steps into something wholly new; the rippling sensation of a world that is about to change.”

The display includes two large quilts that were made using pieced, hand-dyed cotton and cyanotypes (a photogram process invented by a 19th-century astronomer used to document plant life) on silk. The stitching on the quilts makes lines that evoke moments of movement or touch and appear as if they’re rippling outward.

Geary gallery in Millerton is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 5pm or by appointment. (The gallery also has a location in New York City). For more information, call (732) 838-4511‬ or visit the website.