Elizabeth Buhe at Brooklyn Rail has words about Sara’s Star Rose, Rose Star at Sargent’s Daughters, and notes the works in Star Rose, Rose Star at combine emerging and Indigenous technologies, including dying, weaving, beading, and basketry, some of which Sarah Rosalena learned from her Wixárika relatives.
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#sarahrosalena
is a NYC based multimedia artist specializing in textiles and fiber and working across art and design. She finds inspiration everywhere, but especially in the materials and processes she uses, along with nature, architecture, science, metaphysics, and in the very experience of being alive and engaging with others.
#lizcollins
who is best known as one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement is the subject of a recent Hyperallergic podcast which focuses on many of the feminist threads in her work, no pun intended. Her work has taken several turns across her career including beginning as a full on abstractionist (like almost all artists of her generation who went to Art school). Given the importance of patterns on the arc of abstraction across the last quarter of the last century she belongs on this blog.
#joycekozloff
gets a nod from Hyperallergic s most recent 10 art shows to see in LA (December 2024 edition). The P’Urhépecha artist’s woven works navigate between craft and fine art, tradition and fashion. Working predominantly with toquillo, or plastic lanyard material, Janacua weaves patterns that recall Minimalism and geometric abstraction, as well as Indigenous designs and art forms.
#andrésjanacua
Julie at Hyperallergic reviews Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students (2023), by Michael Beggs and Julie J. Thomson. Many of these weavers were also covered in the Women of Bauhaus exhibit I saw and blogged about several years ago. Fiber arts are having a good year in 2024 as Julie points out. Other than a nice pic of a piece by Joan she is not the topic, you can look here and (literally) here at the Asheville Art Museum, one of NC’s many fine institutions.
#joanpotterloveless
is currently included EQ in the 2024 II International Biennial of Contemporary Fibre Art at the Museum of Embroidery and Textiles in Valtopina, Perugia, Italy.
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#deborahkruger
is currently showing Precarious Habitats at Meredith University’s Weems Gallery. Ferreira’s work incorporates thread, yarn, found, and heirloom fabrics, as well as a variety of repurposed materials, such as plastics, to create sculptural embroidered paintings.
#patriziaferreira
is one of the artists included in Intersectional Voices, the current exhibit at Greenville Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Clare is a weaver and artist whose practice examines personal and familial experience within the broader framework of myths and narratives that make up the American South.
#clarehu
Final post about 2024 Artfields artists*.
Cristina works with remnants of previous textile projects as well as materials donated by local makers in Charleston, and expands her study of the cane weaving pattern into a large-scale installation. Her relationship to cane weaving is one of nostalgia rooted in her memory of my elders, their homes and communing spaces.
*see also Brent, Kristy, Kai, Natalie, Ian, Amberly, Margaret and Emiko
#cristinavictor
is one of many artists that I was newly exposed to at Artfields this Spring. Below is Harvest Avocado whose title (according to Kristy’s statement) comes from the two most popular colors from 1970s decor, Harvest Gold and Avocado. These earthy tones and the revival in craft become popular due to the start of the environmental movement. Today, 50 years later, we find ourselves in the midst of a climate crisis that urgently needs to be addressed. The inkle woven patterned bands criss-cross and grow in an organic way. Humans are interwoven with the planet’s ecosystems, intricately connected to the delicate balance of nature.
By merging tradition with contemporary influences and addressing the pressing climate crisis, her art serves as a reflection of our times, prompting awareness and dialogue about the need for action in a world where the environment is in crisis.
#kristybishop
like Magdalena has work featured in To Weave the Sky. A queer artist who was born of a Muslim father and raised by his Christian grandmother, Adam’s elaborate textiles address the diverse cultural and spiritual contexts that continue to form his identity. The artist has embraced Islamic spirituality and particularly Sufism, and his works might be read as enlarged prayer rugs.
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#igshaanadams
Painting After Art is Dead 