Blog: Musings on Textile Art
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Mining Historic Textiles as a Route to the Future
2020-03-26 02:55:03 UTC
The following is a Guest Post by weaver Mary Lane about her recent work and her participation in a workshop led by Gerhardt Knodel on mining historic textiles for design inspiration. I was a participant in this workshop as well, but I asked Mary to write about her experience because…
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A Visit with Erin Riley
2020-03-18 21:16:00 UTC
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Erin M. Riley in her studio
So, I’ve been living in NYC since October and one thing that was high on my list was to meet tapestry phenom Erin M. Riley. I was finally able to meet her in February. If you don’t follow Erin’s work, you should! (www.erinmriley.com) She…
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In the Galleries: Alexandra Mocanu
2020-01-26 23:27:12 UTC
I was fortunate to see tapestries by French-Romanian artist Alexandra Mocanu at Twenty First Gallery, New York, in December. For the weaving geek, there was much to swoon over
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Twenty First Gallery, 76 Franklin Street, NYC
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Twenty First Gallery
First of all, allow me to apologize for the yellow cast…
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A Field Trip to Browngrotta Arts
2019-11-08 17:55:56 UTC
This week I finally had the chance to see an exhibition of fiber art collected by Sandra and Louis Grotta. For thirty years, Browngrotta Arts has been the premiere gallery dealing in dimensional textile art, sculpture, and fine craft in the U.S., and for nearly that long, I have wanted…
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Heallreaf
2019-11-04 17:29:00 UTC
This year was my first year participating in Heallreaf, an international tapestry biennial in the UK organized by Margaret Jones. Yes, you heard me right – a major exhibition organized entirely by a single individual. This would be quite a feat even if Heallreaf was limited to artists living in…
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Tapestry in the Galleries: Terri Friedman
2019-10-21 15:29:00 UTC
So way back in April, I saw a show of tapestries by Terri Friedman at Guerro Gallery in San Francisco. The experience was kind of a “perfect storm,” in that I had only just become acquainted with her work on Instagram, where she mentioned the opening of her show. I…
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A Visit With Mary Zicafoose
2019-09-26 15:50:00 UTC
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Mary poses in her downtown Omaha studio.
Recently, my husband and I took a cross-country road trip to the Mid West. I used this occasion to drop in on one of my favorite tapestry artists: Mary Zicafoose. I met Mary at her downtown Omaha, Nebraska studio. It was such a…
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The Shape of Things
2019-09-07 01:23:46 UTC
Have you ever felt like you are standing at a threshold between one state of being and another? I have - a lot actually. In fact, I created a whole body of work trying to convey that frame of mind, but I’m here to tell you that I have finally…
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Tapestry in the Galleries: Aziz + Cucher
2019-05-31 17:13:34 UTC
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Tapestries of the Renaissance: Art and Magnificencein 2002, I think we all hoped that would spur an increased interest in contemporary tapestry. One could argue that we are currently seeing the revival we had hoped for, because there is certainly a lot…
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Tapestry in the Galleries: Christina Forrer
2019-05-24 15:24:54 UTC
Last month I had the pleasure of seeing the tapestries of Christina Forrer at Luhring Augustine in NYC. Thanks to Instagram, I’ve become aware of quite a number of new artist/weavers breaking into the scene, most coming out of LA or Brooklyn, who are focusing the limelight on textiles as…