ArtBabble: Textiles

Ann Hamilton

National Gallery of Art, Washington — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:23:27 +0000

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Ann Hamilton presented a lecture on her nearly 30-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art on September 16, 2011. Hamilton has made multimedia installations with stunning qualities and quantities of materials: a room lined with small canvas dummies, a table spread with human and animal teeth, the artist herself wearing a man's suit covered in a layer of thousands of toothpicks. Along the way, she has constantly set and reset the course of contemporary art.

Beryl Korot: "Babel" Paintings & Weavings

Art21 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:24:16 +0000

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Art21:Exclusive

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At her home and studio in Connecticut, Beryl Korot discusses how she turned away from video in the 1980s towards older forms of technology and information. Using the biblical story of the Tower of Babel as both source and inspiration, Korot developed her own code-based language for a series of weavings and paintings.

Ben Venom: Heavy Metal Quilting @ YBCA

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:36:13 +0000

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Ben Venom fuses his life in the Atlanta punk rock scene with his sewing craft, whereby the aggressive force of heavy metal collides with the soft form and slow practice of quilting. Ben Venom is part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' sixth triennial survey exhibition of Bay Area art, "Bay Area Now 6". • Video by Kai Hsing (proto-kai.com) • Music via Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org/music/Raspberry_Bulbs/LIVE_on_My_Castle_of_Quiet_7152011/07_-instrumental-I_Will_Not_Pretend • More about the triennial exhibition that Ben is part of at ybca.org/ban6-visual-exhibition

A Golden Spider-Silk Textile at the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:59:28 +0000

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Art Institute Installations

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Art Institute of Chicago

Get a behind-the-scenes look at this history and creation of this dazzling textile, the only one of its kind in the world, made from the strands of silk from over one million of Madagascar’s golden orb spiders. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago through October 2011.

New on View: Psyche Displaying Her Treasures to Her Sisters

Detroit Institute of Arts — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:11:37 +0000

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In The Frame: Exploring the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Detroit Institute of Arts

From the psyche series, designed about 1740, woven 1744-46. By Francois Boucher.

Thornton Dial's Use of Textiles

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:28:09 +0000

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Thornton Dial: Hard Truths

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist’s significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial’s work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time—including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 works on view for the first time. Spanning twenty years of his work as an artist, it is the most extensive showing of his art ever mounted.

Xenobia Bailey

Museum of Arts & Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:24:16 +0000

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Museum of Arts & Design

For fiber artist Xenobia Bailey, art is therapeutic exercise - like a trip to the gym for her psyche. Her work is particularly influenced by the African traditions of story-telling.

Algernon Miller

Museum of Arts & Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:41:03 +0000

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Museum of Arts & Design

Artist Algernon Miller worked with Sanaa Gateja and the Kweto Afrika Women's Association to turn stacks of Barack Obama presidential literature into a large wall hanging composed of thousands of hand-crafted 'beads.'

Beryl Korot: "Text and Commentary"

Art21 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:25:53 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #131: Featuring excerpts from her groundbreaking video installation Text and Commentary (1977), artist Beryl Korot discusses how information has been encoded in lines and patterns throughout human history, whether in print media, through video, or on a weaving loom.

Jessica Rankin: Mind & Language

Art21 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:16:42 +0000

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"My work's always had a lot to do with language and the landscape of the mind," says artist Jessica Rankin, referencing her intricately embroidered pieces. Filmed in 2008 in a Berlin studio adjoining that of her partner, artist Julie Mehretu, Rankin discusses how learning a foreign language as well as reading literature are influential to her working method.