«Color Field,» Lou's largest sculpture to date, is on view starting this weekend at the Neuberger Museum of Art along with the artist's «Solid Grey» and «Color / White» canvases, two series of
woven beaded works.
Not exact matches
I have a passion for textiles and I incorporate vintage silks, handmade lace, hand
woven textiles as well as fabrics I have printed myself,
working into the fabrics with threads and
beads to create a vibrant, opulent medley of textures and colours.»
At the time, the few disabled students mainstreamed in public schools — no matter what their disability, physical or learning — were usually nudged toward manual
work like
bead stringing or
weaving, not academics.
The relics of that time live on in his
work, which often features the end papers used for perms as well as «painterly variants on
weaving,
beading, and tinting» (M. Wilson, «Mark Bradford,» Artforum, April 2008, n.p.).
For the exhibition at Goodman Gallery, Lou explores the surface normally accepted as the ground for art — the canvas — making it into the subject of the
work, but instead of cloth, the «canvas» here is
woven out of unified, off - white glass
beads.
Afshar will also debut a large wall relief installation made of found Turkish fabrics, tulle,
beads, and wire that explore the disintegration of material over time, adding a temporal dimension to her
work not present in her
woven pieces.
For this exhibition, Lou will present new
work from her ingxube series, with six colorful minimalist paintings comprised entirely of
woven beads.
In her monochromatic, pixelated,
woven «paintings» with
beads, subtle variations and streaks reveal a humanity and beauty beneath the repetitive and invisible process of the
work's creation.
These include a new series of
works called «Reliefs,» that are densely layered,
beaded panels which recall Muslim prayer rugs on which they are partly based, while being reminiscent of topographical maps of cities, abstract art, and mysterious altars; and «Continuous Mile,» a mile - long rope
woven entirely out of cotton and bone - white
beads.
Cave's Soundsuits, which are
woven bodysuits built out of materials ranging from fabric, buttons, and
beads, to pieces of wood and metal, ceramic birds, and human hair, are his most well known body of
work.
We were
working on a sculpture called Book of Days, which was comprised of 365
woven sheets of silver - lined glass
beads, which were to be each stacked one on top of another like pages in a manuscript.