Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is
an American fiber artist and basket maker.
Not exact matches
2010 THREADS: Textiles and
Fiber in the Works of African
American Artists, EK Projects, Beijing, China Personal Freedom, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal At Home / Not At Home: Works From The Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY
Other exhibition highlights on view in October include Little Black Dress, curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley; Addio del Passato, presenting photographs, sculpture and film by Yinka Shonibare MBE; Stretching the Limits, a group exhibition by
fiber - based media
artists; Reveal the secrets that you seek, featuring installations by Bharti Kher; and Figures, four large - scale wall hangings by renowned
American sculptor Lynda Benglis.
An exhibition that explores the emergence of
fiber arts as a fine art and showcases the contemporary fine art textile and fabric movement with works by internationally celebrated masters, top North
American artists, and promising newcomers.
For over 50 years,
American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the boundaries of
fiber as a medium, creating a distinctive body of work that falls...
His latest show at San Francisco's Altman Siegel, which includes a misty seascape titled «NSA - tapped
Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site,» should confirm his status as one of the most important
American political
artists of recent years.
This exhibition features a group of contemporary Latina
American artists who incorporate the language of
fiber arts into their practice.
For over 50 years,
American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the boundaries of
fiber as a medium, creating a distinctive...
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 2018 Open SpacesKansas City, MO 2018 Color of the Year Presented by Pantone and X-RiteUrban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2017 Solar Flair: Celestial Bodies in MotionAlbrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO 2017Light and ShadowMildred M. Cox Gallery Kemper Center for the Arts William Woods University, Fulton, MO 2017The 19th Annual National Juried Competition,: «Works of Paper» 2017Long Beach Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ 2017 - 2018 Teardrops That Wound: the Absurdity of War, George Tsutakawa Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian and Pacific
American Experience, Commission Work «Break Into Blossom», In collaboration with Phong Nguyen and Justin Shaw 2016 Vision: An
Artist's Perspective, Gutfeund Cornett Art Kaleid Gallery San Jose, CA 2016 Novus Conceptum, Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery Bellaire, TX 2015 Generations: Forty Hues Between Black and White, OCCCA (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art), Santa Ana, CA 2015 Somewhere Between Black and White,
Fiber Art Network, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2015 Old Enough To Know Better, Cranes Art Gallery 105, Philadelphia, PA 2014 The 2nd Annual Juried
Artist's Book Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas 2014 The Living Mark Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR 2014 Subconscious, Flow Art Gallery, St Louis MO 2014 A Dream and a Memory, St. Louis
Artist Guild, St. Louis MO 2013 Missouri 50, Fine Art Building Sedalia, MO 2013 Art / Identity, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 2013 26th Annual Women's Work, Old Court House, Woodstock, IL 2012 Contemporary Women
Artists XVI, Saint Louis University Art Museum, St. Louis MO 2012 UCM Faculty Show, UCM Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, MO 2012 Color!
January: Britt - Marie Alm and Love Fest
Fibers >> > February - April: Contemporary Irish
Artists, curated by Jim Ricks >> > May: The CCA Social Practice Workshop led by Ranu Mukherjee >> > June: Asian
American Women
Artists Association, Emerging Curators Program >> > August: Madi Manson >> >
In addition, many have been featured in numerous publications, including
Artists Magazine, Art in America,
Fiber Arts, Ceramic Monthly, Metalsmith,
American Craft, Print, Communication Arts, and Step by Step.
Tags: Art Feature, Yvette Mayorga,
American dream, Mexican immigrants, Mexican -
American, immigration, U.S. - Mexico border, Really Safe in My Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC, border politics, Candy Land, Gallery 400, Out of Easy Reach, Allison Glenn, Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art, Hello Kitty, Selena, Moline, Jerez, confectionary, cake frosting, Chicago
Artists Coalition, Bolt residency, Janine Mileaf,
fiber and material studies, Monuments, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, sculpture, The Politics of Desire, Expo Chicago, High Maintainence, National Mexican Museum of Art
Since 1994 they have collaborated with African, Australian Aboriginal and Native
American artists as well as
artists from Asia, America, Europe and Australia and have been recognized for their intricate, nuanced and time - intensive contemporary
fiber art.
Tawney, along with Abakanowicz and Sheila Hicks (
American, born 1934), who is represented by a major wall hanging, was an early pioneer of a new genre known as
fiber art, in which
artists made soft sculptures by crocheting, knotting, looping, weaving, and twisting
fibers, both synthetic and natural.
For over 50 years,
American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the boundaries of
fiber as a medium, creating a distinctive body of work that falls between the fields of fine art, craft, design, and architecture.