Sentences with phrase «textile remnants»

Her unique wall carpets made from found textile remnants are a central element of the show.

Curator Claire Whitner organized the exhibition with accompanying works by Albers that help frame the silkscreens: preparatory sketches, fabric swatches, gouache maquettes, and commercially manufactured textile remnants.

The repurposing, by black rural women, of scraps of worn work clothes and other textile remnants into functional bedcovers became expressive, formally sophisticated testaments of the African American struggle.

Not exact matches

But currently there is a remnant of just four textile companies employing under 2,000 people, battling to stay in business amid a myriad of challenges.

While the tire treads, textures, and patterns are reminiscent of African textiles, Booker's manipulation of the tires evoke African scarification practices as well as remnants of whippings from slavery.

This was our final source for an array of remnant textiles that together with the found garments are recycled and transformed into an art work.

Preparatory works on paper are paired with fabric swatches and remnants manufactured by commercial textile producers, such as Knoll where her designs can be purchased to this day.»

Also at Newcomb are Jamaican artist Ebony G Patterson and her dazzling, vividly coloured, metamorphic, mixed media floral works on paper that suggest beaded textiles, nonagenarian Monir Farmanfarmaian, whose faceted, mirrored sculptures shape modernist geometric forms out of Persian designs, melding her Iranian heritage with that of her adopted city, New York and Andrea Fraser, with her tall mound of discarded costumes collected from Rio's Carnevale, remnants of their wearers» dreams.

His studies of human nature, most often in the form of the female nude, are rich with references — a floral headpiece, delicate compote, gilded frame remnants, a peacock feather, and soft textiles.

The garments in the exhibition — coats, ponchos, bags, shirts, and pants — replay, recycle, and echo the remnants of fabrics used to create the artist's quilts, collages, textiles and sculptures.

That's what has happened whenever we've tried to protect (the remnants of) other domestic industries critical for our national defense and welfare, such as steel, vehicle manufacturing, textiles, etc..