Not exact matches
For her second solo exhibition in the gallery, and in Belgium, Louise Bourgeois has made a selection of recent
sculptures in
fabric, screen prints on vintage cloth and a completely new series of wall
hangings, entitled «The Woven Drawings».
In «Cell XXVI», the
hanging fabric figure is a variation on an earlier
sculpture, «Spiral Woman».
Two installation shots: with the
hanging spirals above, and with a view of Bourgeois's cells and
fabric sculptures below.
The other was awarded to the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj, who exhibited large
hanging sculptures of moths crafted out of traditional
fabrics from his country.
Spanning more than 45 years of her career, the show, titled «Suspension,» exhibits six black ink drawings and 25
sculptures that dangle from the ceiling, including her famous Janus series (1968), a collection of organic, amorphous, bug - like forms made in bronze and plaster, and Arch of Hysteria (2004), a double - headed work made of
fabric, in which male and female torsos are fused and
hung at the waist.
While Dash literally worries her diminutive textile
sculptures to pieces, the majority of these works (all Untitled, 2016)-- composed primarily of stacked or beveled arrangements of jute - stretched canvases, quantities of gessoed or hand - painted
fabric, and lengths of twine embedded in or
hanging from troweled - on adobe grounds — feature tactile surfaces manipulated by the sure hand of composure.
Amalgamations of silk, cotton, and / or spandex are stitched together and
hang from the walls as the artist forgoes traditional support structures in favour of draping
fabric or
hanging it as if from a flagpole to blur the boundaries between painting and soft
sculpture.
The 80 - year - old Hicks, an American in Paris since 1964, and before that a student of Josef Albers and a classmate of Eva Hesse at Yale, weaves, sews, spins, braids, wraps and twines paintings, wall
hangings and
sculptures of dizzying beauty out of every imaginable
fabric.
Our textile artists use materials such as yarn,
fabric, paper, thread, wire, metal, and glass to create unique and original jewelry, wall
hangings, clothing,
sculpture, accessories, and many other inventive works of art.
The exhibit also includes a wall installation with multiple individual fragments, a very large 3 - panel abstract painting on canvas with
fabric, paint, and collaged newspaper clippings about UFO sightings, a ceiling —
hung mobile and a stabile (
sculpture) on a pedestal made with wood, string and found metal.
The
fabric sculptures presented at Ricou gallery are
hung like draped columns in the space.
Polly Apfelbaum's abstract
fabric sculpture, «Split Station Stop,»
hangs from the ceiling and was inspired by her stay in Rome with its abundance of Catholic - themed artworks, specifically the Stations of the Cross.
Like her
fabric wall -
hangings, a few of which are also on view here, her
sculptures resemble the kinds of objects you would see in someone's home.
«A topos of Neto's work is the «nave», a
hanging, walk - in
sculpture of thin
fabric that is modified according to the spatial or topographical situation (in the barren expanse around Santa Fé, Mexico, Neto installed a «Stella nave» outdoors).
Hung low, a mere two feet from the ground, are long rectangular wall
sculptures of aluminum wrapped in colorful
fabric.
In 1987, Rauschenberg's emergency set for Brown's Lateral Pass (1985) at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, utilized scrap metal and
fabric to create temporary
hanging sculptures for the stage.
In the main gallery, another
sculpture made of aluminium honeycomb,
fabric and beeswax
hangs from the ceiling.
His
sculptures re-purpose and combine a range of materials, such as fiberglass propellers, wooden coat
hangers, parachute
fabric, and a variety of musical instruments in a process that the artist calls «potential disclosure,» which aims to reveal the dormant life in inanimate objects.»
Critics picked up on shared concerns with soft
sculpture, and Paul Overy pointed out that Flanagan's work was intriguing in that it looked soft, but in fact, was hard.1 The exhibition included anthropomorphically shaped
sculpture made from plaster filled
fabric bags, pieces
hanging from the ceiling, and a pile of sand poured directly onto the carpeted floor.
Another great wall was at Mendes Wood, with two soft
sculptures by Sonia Gomes
hanging from the ceiling to the floor, made of
fabrics woven and rolled together.
>> > SOURCES << < wall colour: Red Earth, ceiling colour: Nancy's Blushes, alcove colour: Picture Gallery Red, velvet curtains: AuDelaVintage,
fabric for sheers: bettiecouture, curtain tassels: FabricsTrimsPillows, curtain hardware: Cozzy Coverings, 3 pink and purple signed and numbered prints from Montreal's St. Michel flea market, vintage radio converted into a Bluetooth speaker by my husband: Daff Design, purple vase on radio & glass owl vase on dining table & most of the vintage ceramics on buffet: Vanier Moderns, plate with semi-circle
hanging on wall in alcove & bowl below it & 2 small bowls leaning against books: Le Lou Ula Atelier, plate with flower: L'Arbre et la Rivière, brass reed
sculpture & brass plant stand: The Pale Blue Dot, wooden stool plant stand & purple vase on dining table: Highjinx, rug: eCarpetGallery, Hay Denmark blanket and Ferm Living orange pot: The Modern Shop, framed canvas abstract painting: Andrea @hunt.