This Spring in Connecticut brings an abundance of daffodils and in the US and abroad a slew of artwork exhibitions. From Scotland to San Francisco to Seoul, we’ve rounded up some suggestions for you:
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- 1 Jane BalsgaardApril 6 – May 5, 2024Vejle KunstforeningSøndermarksvaj 1Vejle, Denmark 7100
- 2 Four Tales of Swedish Textile: Inger Bergstöm, Jin Sook So, Katka Beckham Ojala, Takao MomijamaMarch 20 – April 2, 2024Suaenyo 339,339 Pyeongchang-gil, Jongno-guSeoul, Korea
- 3 Andy Warhol: The TextilesThrough Might 18, 2024Dovecot Studios10 Infirmary AvenueEdinburgh, SCOTLAND EH1 1LT
- 4 Irresistible: The World-wide Patterns of IkatBy June 1, 2024George Washington University and Textile Museum701 21st St. NWWashington, DC 20052 [email protected]
- 5 Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Contemporary ArtworkBy means of June 16, 2024Metropolitan Museum of Artwork1000 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10028
- 6 On and Off the Loom: Kay Sekimachi and 20th Century Fiber ArtworkLecture and Video with Melissa Leventon and Ellin KlorApril 20. 20241 p.m. EDTde Younger Museum50 Hagiwara Tea Yard TravelGolden Gate ParkSan Francisco, CA 94118
- 7 Woven Histories: Textiles and Contemporary AbstractionBy July 28, 2024Countrywide Art GalleryEast Constructing, Concourse Galleries4th Avenue and Structure Avenue, NWWashington, DC
Jane Balsgaard
April 6 – May 5, 2024
Vejle Kunstforening
Søndermarksvaj 1
Vejle, Denmark 7100
This exhibition of Jane Balsgaard’s artwork get the job done of glass twigs and plant paper will open in Velje, Denmark this April.
Four Tales of Swedish Textile: Inger Bergstöm, Jin Sook So, Katka Beckham Ojala, Takao Momijama
March 20 – April 2, 2024
Suaenyo 339,
339 Pyeongchang-gil, Jongno-gu
Seoul, Korea
This is an exhibition of 4 quite different art methods, such as work in stainless metal mesh by Jin-Sook So. “Applying textiles as an artistic medium opens up a earth of opportunities, interpretations and expectations,” create the exhibition’s curators. “How the individual artist will work in this realm is unpredictable and can lead to absolutely various genres and contexts. The exhibition, 4T – 4 Swedish Stories of Textile, shows the operates of a team of artists who even with their distinctive expressions are united by an fascination especially for textile surfaces.”
Andy Warhol: The Textiles
Through Might 18, 2024
Dovecot Studios
10 Infirmary Avenue
Edinburgh, SCOTLAND EH1 1LT
Andy Warhol: The Textiles takes viewers on a journey by way of the not known and unrecorded planet of types by the influential artist before his Silver Manufacturing facility days. As the originators reveal, by showcasing more than 35 of Warhol’s textile styles from the interval, depicting an array of colourful objects ice product sundaes, delectable toffee apples, colourful buttons, slice lemons, pretzels, and leaping clowns, this exhibition demonstrates how textile and trend design was a essential stage in Warhol getting to be one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. A guide accompanies the exhibition: Warhol: The Textiles.
Irresistible: The World-wide Patterns of Ikat
By June 1, 2024
George Washington University and Textile Museum
701 21st St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
[email protected]
Prized globally for making vivid styles and shades, the historical resist-dyeing method of ikat designed independently in communities throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas, in which it proceeds to inspire artists and designers nowadays. This exhibition explores the international phenomenon of ikat textiles by way of far more than 70 masterful examples — historical and modern day — from nations around the world as assorted as Japan, Indonesia, India, Uzbekistan, Côte d’Ivoire and Guatemala. Provided are will work by Polly Barton, Isabel Toledo, and Ed Rossbach.
Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Contemporary Artwork
By means of June 16, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
The process of making textiles has very long been a springboard for artistic creation. In Weaving Abstraction in Historical and Modern Artwork, two extraordinary bodies of function separated by at minimum 500 decades are introduced with each other to check out the hanging connections between artists of the historical Andes and these of the 20th century. The exhibition shows textiles by four distinguished modern day practitioners—Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, and Olga de Amaral—alongside parts by Andean artists from the 1st millennium BCE to the 16th century.
On and Off the Loom: Kay Sekimachi and 20th Century Fiber Artwork
Lecture and Video with Melissa Leventon and Ellin Klor
April 20. 2024
1 p.m. EDT
de Younger Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Yard Travel
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Kay Sekimachi is esteemed as an innovator in contemporary fiber art. Her vision has had an effects on several excellent artists. Sekimachi arrived of age at a growth time for fiber artwork, when many artists have been experimenting with dimensional weaving both on and off the loom and had been hard aged art planet hierarchies in the method. In this converse in individual and on Zoom, Melissa Leventon will examine Sekimachi’s oeuvre within the wider context of fiber artwork in the 20th century.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Contemporary Abstraction
By July 28, 2024
Countrywide Art Gallery
East Constructing, Concourse Galleries
4th Avenue and Structure Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
This transformative exhibition has moved from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Countrywide Gallery in DC. It explores how summary art and woven textiles have intertwined about the earlier hundred decades.This transformative exhibition explores how summary art and woven textiles have intertwined around the previous hundred a long time. In the 20th century, textiles have usually been thought of lesser—as used artwork, women’s get the job done, or domestic craft. Woven Histories challenges the hierarchies that usually individual textiles from high-quality arts. Putting into dialogue some 160 operates by additional than 50 creators from throughout generations and continents, together with Katherine Westphal, Dorothy Gill Barnes, and Ed Rossbach, this exhibition explores the contributions of weaving and related methods to abstraction, modernism’s preeminent artwork kind. The e-book that accompanies the exhibition, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern-day Abstraction, can be observed on our web site.
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