Switzerland About Blog TAFch is a group of textile artists who have set themselves the goal of making
textile works known to a broad public in Switzerland and promoting its recognition as an art form.
Switzerland About Blog TAFch is a group of textile artists who have set themselves the goal of making
textile works known to a broad public in Switzerland and promoting its recognition as an art form.
Switzerland About Blog TAFch is a group of textile artists who have set themselves the goal of making
textile works known to a broad public in Switzerland and promoting its recognition as an art form.
Not exact matches
C The Organizer: Criterion Collection Unrated Italian with English Subtitles Getting the Criterion treatment here is a relatively little -
known 1963 Italian film about a group of
textile workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century that join forces under the leadership of a traveling professor in order to fight for better
working conditions.
The Cannon Beach History Center and Museum has become well -
known for its displays of beautiful
textile work, but the organization likes to spread its wings every now and again.
Entitled I Don't
Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language., this unique project has been specially devised by the artist and focuses on the particular importance of
textiles in his
work.
Schapiro's hard - edge abstractions from this period are mature, confident
works with great graphic impact, and it must be emphasized that the later
works for which she's best
known, where paint is replaced by or interacts with collaged
textiles, are still highly geometric in their underlying structure; it is the inclusion of
textile, with its gendered connotations, that marks them as a break from her formalist past.
Other dealers in this part are showing Andean
textiles from 200BC to AD1500 (one, a Huari tunic, looks very like a gloom - period Rothko), the playful ceramics of George E Ohr (the mad potter of Biloxi, as he was
known, and whose
work is quoted in the later paintings of Jasper Johns), and assorted «treasures from the ancient world» and stuff from neoclassical Rome.
Since 2011 Michelle Grabner, who is
known for her abstract paintings based on mathematic principles, has been depicting and appropriating domestic
textiles to emphasize the fundamental (yet overlooked) relationship between painting and weaving — a motif last seen in her early 1990s
work.
Known for his exuberant paintings,
works on paper, sculpture,
textiles and installations...
designers
working in the fields of lighting, furnishings, ceramics, and
textiles reveal new thinking and the ideas behind their successful and well -
known designs.
Highlights here include the Beijing - based, Bulgarian
textiles artist Maryn Varbanov (Bank); the self - taught, deaf - mute, Idaho artist James Castle (Fleisher / Ollman Gallery) as well as
works from the 1970s and»80s by the better -
known Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (Galerie Lelong and Goodman Gallery).
The standard definition of a
textile points us to cloth, to the utilitarian, but if we investigate further, one sees that a
textile —
no matter the construction technique — is essentially a set of elements
working together to make a whole.
He is probably best
known for his colourful, thick impasto abstract landscapes, notably his Sicilian paintings, painted in the last year of his life, although he also
worked with
textiles and collage.
Multidisciplinary artist Siwa Mgoboza,
known for his signature bold
textile and photographic
works, joins us from South Africa to talk about his solo exhibition at the Matter Gallery, «Once Upon A Time In Africadia,» which runs November 8 - January 7th at Matter Gallery 344 Westmoreland Ave N, Toronto.
Initially better
known for his
works in ceramic, in 2009 Perry revealed he was just as talented in
textiles when he showed the «Walthamstow Tapestry» at the Victoria Miro Gallery.
This exhibition demonstrates Glackens commitment to forging a uniquely American Modernism by including
works from his little -
known explorations in the 1910s of the abstract compositional components of non-Western art, created alongside Maurice (1858 - 1924) and Charles (1863 - 1948) Prendergast, as well as
works from the 1920s and 1930s that display his fascination with abstraction and pattern in
textiles and decoration.
MJ: And another thing that I've always been struck by, because I also was a student of Josef Albers», was that there was a relationship drawn, or existed between the study of design in a very practical way that related to any kind of study of art, as well as craft, so that people like Trude Guermonprez or Anni Albers, who were
known for their
work in
textile, or Margarite who was
known in ceramics, were considered fine artists.
Josef and Anni Albers are best
known for their bold use of colour, he most famously in his Homage to the Square series, she in her
works that redefined
textiles as art.
Black, White, and Gray by Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) 1950, pictorial weaving adapted as a wool rug Gifts of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in honor of Barack and Michelle Obama A pioneering abstract artist, Anni Albers was best
known for her
work in
textiles.
Known for his elegant use of found materials, El Anatsui (top of page), the Ghanaian - born artist who lives and
works in Nigeria, will show new three - dimensional
textile - style
works at his fourth solo show at the gallery.
According to David Eichholtz, curator of The Tapestries, Wayne was
known for her exacting demands, matching the
textiles» colors to the original lithographs as closely as possible and throwing out
works that were not up to her standards.
Büchel
works in a variety of media, including film, printed materials, sculpture and
textiles, though he is perhaps best
known for his conceptual projects and large - scale installation pieces.
Photographs of Wayne and the French weavers are included in the exhibit, and one image shows Wayne
working on a
textile that
no longer exists.
NEWARK: This fall, the Newark Museum will present The Shape of Light: Gabriel Dawe, featuring large - scale, site - specific installations, as well as
textile - based sculpture and
works on paper by internationally
known artist Gabriel Dawe.
Working in a wide variety of media — from sculpture to printmaking, large - scale installations to
textiles — Smith is
known for her investigation of the human experience, encompassing such themes as spirituality, mortality, and the relationship of humans to the greater cosmos.
While she is best
known for such large - scale
works, she has also been a prolific maker of miniature
textiles.
German artist Anni Albers (1899 — 1994) is primarily
known for her
work in the
textile arts — particularly weaving.
Tal R is probably best
known as a painter but
works in a number of media: sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, video and
textiles.
Primarily
known for his
textile works, his lyrical compositions incorporate a variety of fabrics, from burlap and linen to silk and wool.
Beautiful
textiles and great texture
work no matter if it's a traditional interior or a clean, minimal space,» says Mark.