Sentences with phrase «traditional textile work»

Artists Christy Matson and Sabrina Gschwandtner weave together traditional textile work with electronic components in a new exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center called Bionic Threads.

Luloff first found her online, while researching places where she could study traditional textile work with local artisans.

This Peruvian - crafted poncho from artisan Alfredo Falcon combines traditional textile work and modern design.

Not exact matches

The décor includes works of art from renowned Guatemalan fine artists and handmade textiles with traditional - contemporary designs.

Ban Phanom is a village steeped in traditional textile making with all families in the village working their looms to Read More»

Boetti often designed textiles to be embroidered in artisan workshops, resulting in a body of work that cut across national borders, embracing traditional art forms rooted in tradition, collaboration, and ritualistic meanings of creation.

This exhibition introduces Hurtado Segovia's sculptural work with an emphasis on traditional woodworking techniques, continuing his explorations of pattern and textile influences.

Rather than capitulate to the biases of the art world, however, Emin has made it her goal to make art that is overtly feminine, frequently working in textile and embroidery to evoke the traditional crafts of domesticity.

Her interest in indigenous textiles such as huipils — traditional embroidered garments woven and worn by Mayan women in Mexico and Central America — forms the basis of this work.

She makes extensive use of Xerox transfer printing, a largely Western technique, to incorporate found photography into the works: family photographs; images from Nigerian popular culture; clippings from political, fashion, and society magazines; and ornamental patterns from traditional textiles.

Gomes's works are inspired by her family — her father's family worked in a textile factory, and she was influenced by the traditional dress and rituals of her maternal grandmother, an indigenous spiritual healer and midwife.

Fiber and Line: Reclaiming the historical coding of textiles as «women's work», the artists featured in this section created radical woven forms that upend traditional boundaries between art and craft.

Phillips is no traditional printmaker, working with print in the broadest sense: often transforming the gallery into a workshop and, with other artists, designers and communities, developing screenprints, textiles, photographs and wall paintings as site - specific installations.

The goal was of the movement was to break down traditional boundaries between high art and craft and to offer validation for the decorative pattern work that women had applied to ceramics and textiles throughout the ages.

Jordan Nassar, who primarily produces hand - embroidered textile works and self - published zines, has recently begun making prints that blend the visual language of traditional Palestinian embroidery with a contemporary graphic sensibility.

Her performative paintings and multidimensional works — including textiles, rugs, and clothing — question the diminished value of traditional female labor.

The gallery is pleased to host Shifting Landscapes, a show that explores traditional and contemporary interpretations of place by artists, designers and makers working with or inspired by fiber or textile materials and techniques.

Commissioned especially for the vast window space of Rivington Place, this new 7 metre long textile work merges political commentary and traditional craftsmanship.

Employing the language of textiles as form and process, the artist's latest body of work transcends the boundaries of traditional quilt making.

This canny engagement with conventions of both sculpture and abstract painting combine to make a twofold case: first, for the powerful familial associations and intelligence born from traditional artist practices embodied by the blankets she chose and, second, for the larger place of such «women's work» of making handmade textiles as crucial to major debates in Western art's history.

Also on view is a selection of smaller works from Attukwei's Common Man series, in which Attukwei isolates the tops of the gallon containers, which resemble traditional Afrian masks, against backgrounds of traditional local textiles.

«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new modes of contemporary painting can produce artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional methods.»

For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series of detailed images — decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to contemporary consumer culture — into a sweeping narrative of a human life.

But for the designers of South African furniture company Casamento, a sofa with soul means going back to traditional methods — and by using recycled and natural textiles to handcraft gorgeously eye - catching works.

Lately, my passion has turned to textiles - and my work now primarily includes primitive / traditional rug hooking.

Beautiful textiles and great texture work no matter if it's a traditional interior or a clean, minimal space,» says Mark.