Fabric of Impulse: Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral Melds Artistic Spontaneity with Slow Craft
For almost seventy years, the Colombian weaver has repeatedly pushed the parameters of her discipline, making it ever more expressive.
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Experiencing the Shock of the Old, Fiber Artists Rediscover Shows Like MoMA’s Pivotal 1969 “Wall Hangings”
Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
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Harmony Hammond
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's focused, handsomely installed retrospective of Harmony Hammond's work offers something of a corrective to perceptions of her career, which have often been…
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In the Studio: Pia Camil
Pia Camil has created a substantial body of textile sculptures made of denim or T-shirts. She frequently sews the latter together into massive sheets that can dominate architectural settings. But…
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The retrospective exhibition of the weaver Anni Albers that began at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and then traveled to Tate Modern in London, has been greeted from all sides…
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Ewelina Bochenska
Bochenska's work feels both of this world and outside it, bidding us to live an existence that more purposefully bridges the two.
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In the Studio: Nancy Shaver
Nancy Shaver's circuitous route to this year's Venice Biennale began in the farm country of western New York near the shores of Lake Ontario, forty miles outside Buffalo. Her sprawling installation…
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From Combat to Carpet—The Strange Story of Afghan War Rugs
Afghanistan's women weavers have transformed traditional textiles into amazing and complex icons of war, change, and modernity
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