Not exact matches
Once you're
working with cohesive furniture and décor, you can add a bit of personality and personal preference
back into the room with strategic use of picture perfect
textiles.
One is a
work clearly made from the
backs of bras, here used as graphic geometric patterns, another symbol of femininity used by Bourgeois, who amongst all 20th century artists was a pioneer who made materials such as
textiles appropriate to be used in fine art.
What / Why: «Fresh Fiber Revisited:
Work by Emerging
Textile Artists from RISD, UMass - Dartmouth, and MassART brings
back together fiber and
textile design programs from three prominent universities, allowing visitors to experience the wide range of possibilities within the field of fiber art.»
Büttner had the
back rests produced by nuns and people with disabilities and for the coverings of the panels used
textiles which are usually found in
work clothes.
Digitally printed onto the
textiles, these
works pay homage to the modern tradition of pointillism which originated during a time of social and economic unrest in Europe dating
back over a century yet still relevant today.
So then I
backed away from most imagery I thought I would be interested in based on previous
work of mine that was invested in craft or
textiles.
Translations of
textiles, jewelry, and found images that have featured prominently in her
work now loop
back in transmuted forms.
Richard Tuttle, who is just
back from installing a large - scale sculpture commission in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and a survey of his
textile works at Whitechapel Gallery in London, will be contributing his site - specific piece to the ceiling in early November.
There has been a strong interest in fiber and
textile art in the last half - decade, circling
back to the»50s and»60s, as well as newer
work.
This month, Brece Honeycutt is exhibiting her
textile and sculptural
work here in a solo exhibition called «Bewilder,» with collages by the sound artist Audra Wolowiec in the
back room.4
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.
The only problem is that while such a model may have
worked back in the day when people were stuck in
textile factories doing repetitive tasks, it doesn't seem to
work very well with what Peter Drucker calls the «knowledge worker.»
So often large commercial spaces like this lack warmth without the addition of
textiles, so instead we created a feeling of warmth by
working with materials which gave the illusion of texture - such as coating the bar in brushed copper sheeting, and covering the
back wall with wallpaper which replicates an old flint wall.