Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories
On gallery walls, tapestries are replacing canvases as young artists disregard distinctions between fine art and folk art.
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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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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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Sheila Pepe is a maker, as she herself puts it, but the things she makes are frequently unmade. The ephemerality and shape-shifting propensities of her art may be one reason her thirty-year career is…
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The Fabric of Memory
Thailand's Jakkai Siributr endows his stitched, embroidered and sequined works with a deeply serious sociopolitical import.
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