Tapestry Exhibition
For thousands of years, humankind has used the medium of tapestry to express itself and record history. In 1804, the Jacquard loom was invented. In this time-honored tradition, a growing group of artists has collaborated with Don and Era Farnsworth, weaving contemporary tapestries in Belgium on historic Jacquard looms. Woven mostly from man-made cotton fibers, these beautiful textiles feature exacting detail and the authentic marks of the artists’ hands, making them thoroughly contemporary tapestries. Since 1998, Donald and Era Farnsworth have collaborated on this tapestry project with such artists as Chuck Close. Included in this exhibition are Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwath, Kiki Smith, Don and Ara Farnsworth, and others. With more than ten thousand threads at the artists’ disposal, at a density of 152 threads per inch, these artists are able to interweave color and pattern into soft textile masterpieces.
Out of the Mist
A group exhibition composed of several series that are grouped thematically, Pegan Brooke, Nicole Charbonnet, Kathy Moss, and Lynda Lowe’s exhibition reads as contemporary abstractions in which individual works function both autonomously and as parts of a larger system of interrelationships. Soft colored forms, mingling, mutating, and slow dancing together. Whether blurring colors and surfaces together or holding them separate, these artists honor surface, paint, color, and light.
Evidence
Laura McPhee, Laura Wilson, and Jack Spencer. This group photography exhibition branches into more specialized pursuits, presenting a selection of images the artists made while searching the landscape in various places, including Idaho, the desert West, and Texas. The images include color, black-and-white, and stained images—inviting all manner of speculation about what they might be or represent. They are records of our changing landscapes, human accidents, and interventions. They also include experiments in light and texture, people, and places, while holding meaning beyond first impressions.
Captions:
Story of Painting
cotton Jacquard tapestry
by Squeak Carnwath
74.5” x 81”
Birdsong
cotton Jacquard tapestry
by Diane Hall
38.5” x 38”
Vernal Equinox
cotton Jacquard tapestry
by Donald & Era Farnsworth
76 x 56
September
cotton Jacquard tapestry
by Hung Liu
77 x 75.5
Earth
by Kiki Smith
cotton Jacquard tapestry
118” x 76.5”
Underground
cotton Jacquard tapestry
by Kiki Smith
119” x 78”
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