A Day at the Met (2016, 2017) — MARK LIAM SMITH. 6 Abstract textile artists. Since the end of the 19th century, abstraction has been prevalent in all art forms.
Textile artists using a visual language of form, line and colour to create compositions that don’t necessarily take inspiration from literal references continue to emerge. More and more exciting means of expression are being explored by such practitioners as we discover in this article, which celebrates the work of 6 abstract textile artists. Sarah Symes Sarah Symes – London (City series) 30″ x 20″ Sarah Symes has a background in architecture and graphic design, which informs the way she works with textiles today.
Sarah Symes – Abstract Mountain Landscape No. 4 (Mountain Series) 48″ x 30″ Her process owes more to painting and collage than traditional embroidery techniques; she selects fabric, dyes it as necessary, cuts it into strips, squares or shapes and uses the sewing machine to stitch it together in a highly improvisational way. Learn more about Sarah at SarahSymes.com or visit her online store. Ryuji Nakamura. - Yellowtrace. Absolutely incredible!
Exhibition Ryuji Nakamura 2 at Living Design Gallery showing works from 2004 to 2008. ‘Aurora’ VIP Restaurant Room. Fabric installation at Matsumoto Nagano, 2007. ‘Blossom’ 2009. Private dining atLes Halles De Saison Sage. ‘Cornfield’ paper & glue installation 2010. ‘Colorful’ exhibition 2010. THE BREEDER. Zoë Paul is researching the character of domestic spaces, both in architectural and social terms, at the point where the threshold between the interior and the exterior seems to disappear.
Her practice incorporates mixed media works, sculpture and prints that explore our perception of history, and the treatment and presentation of historical periods and objects, with a particular focus on classical Greek sculpture. Her series of wool weavings on vintage fridge grills have strong painterly qualities and combine the remains of a disposed domestic appliance with the production of textiles for the household. The artist defines this practice as sculpture, since it is the object that she is interested in, along with its relation with the body.
Choosing the fridge grill as a base for her weavings, she talks about how the invention of the fridge, as an appliance changed society and culture, especially in the Mediterranean where the warm climate made the preservation of food difficult. Zoi Gaitanidou. Kendall Buster creates huge sculptural works inspired by the molecular world. Aside from having a great name, Kendall Buster’s work has the advantage of coming from one of the great fodder-generators for this here blog, Neil, who I will from now on refer to as my friend and not my brother’s!
Like my brother, Neil went to Hopkins for college and just recently the campus installed a large sculptural piece from Kendall called Vessel Field! What do you see? Galerie Martin Janda · Lara Schnitger. Lara Schnitger.
Spotlight on 5 contemporary textile artists. We’re lucky at TextileArtist.org; our audience is extremely passionate about contemporary textile art.
Newsletter subscribers often get in touch to let us know about the work of modern artists that they find interesting or inspirational. We’ve featured an array of wonderful artists on the site and these five are no exception. What makes them stand out for us is their ability to push the boundaries of what textile art is and show how contemporary work can fuse seamlessly with design or fine art. Nike Schroeder. Mikala Dwyer and Coen Young winners of 2015 Redlands Art Prize. Add to shortlist Remove from shortlist Coen Young, Study for a mirror 1, Study for a mirror 2, 2015, acrylic, marble dust, enamel and silver nitrate on paper, 212.5 x 121.5 cm each (framed).
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Neon Installations - Peter Kennedy, Australia. New Work Friday #117. Troy Emery, time traveller (large), 2012, pompoms, polyurethane, glass eyes, timber. 108 x 160 x 48 cm.
Photo: Troy Emery. Troy Emery, time traveller (small), 2012, pompoms, polyurethane, glass eyes, timber. 150 x 97 x 70 cm. Photo: Troy Emery. "A tension between decoration and representation is present when looking at animals. They are not only living creatures: Animals can be seen as decorative objects. Got new work you'd like to share? At Art Basel and Design Miami 2014 - Sight Unseen. What We Saw If you've never been to the Swiss version of Art Basel and Design Miami/Basel, what they say about it is pretty much true: If Miami's overall vibe seems to put partying, relaxation, and hedonism first and serious business second, Basel is decidedly the other way around.
Yes, people like Dasha Zhukova and Craig Robbins throw fancy dinners, and spending at least one night out until 4AM at certain local bars is a required rite, and the sales numbers are probably quite similar for both events, but being in Basel just feels different. For one, there's no offsite scene to speak of, so you spend almost the whole time in massive halls that are jam-packed full of people, leaving no room to forget that you're basically inside a shopping mall for the filthy rich. Bridge Lane, Rush. The New Contemporary Art Magazine. Can Google’s Deep Dream become an art machine? Over the last weekend in February one of Google’s computer science departments, Research at Google, co-hosted Deep Dream: the art of neural networks, with the Gray Area Foundation, a San Francisco not-for-profit organisation that fosters collaborations between the arts and technology.
The idea behind the show is that surely a technology company that has pushed boundaries in tech can offer fine artists an app or two? But can it? The show, held in a refurbished cinema in the city’s Mission district, displayed a series of manipulated, photographic works created using one of the tech firm’s artificial intelligence programs. Mt ex Sendai, Colorful Tape Installation at a Warehouse in Japan. Ernesto Neto - Artists - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Since the mid-1990s, Ernesto Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience. Drawing from Biomorphism and minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements of the 1960s & 70s, the artist both references and incorporates organic shapes and materials – spices, spices, sand and shells among them—that engage all five senses, producing a new type of sensory perception that renegotiates boundaries between artwork and viewer, the organic and manmade, the natural, spiritual and social worlds.
Born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, the artist continues to live and work in Brazil. He studied at the city’s Escola de artes visuais do Parque Lage in 1994 and in 1997, and also attended the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art from 1994 to 1996. Since then, Neto’s work has been the subject of major museum exhibitions worldwide. House of Eternal Return ~ Meow Wolf. Operating Hours: Sunday, Monday,Wednesday & Thursday 10:00am-8:00pm Friday & Saturday 10:00am-10:00pm (check special events schedule here) So Hot Right Now // String & Thread Installations. You guys would’ve probably noticed that we freaking LOVE a good roundup around here, right? When asked how I come up with all the content for Yellowtrace (and don’t I ever run out of ideas) I reply with – “I have far more (awesome) content & ideas than time”.
This is 1000% true. Relentless daily research and an insatiable thirst for extraordinary projects can do that to a person. Another question I often get asked is – “What is your favourite Yellowtrace post?” By a thread: string in contemporary art. A historical overview of string as art medium: previous > Works specifically relying on, or incorporating, crafts such as embroidery, crochet, weaving and knitting have generally been excluded from this survey of contemporary string art.
Not through any wish to downplay their importance or, indeed, the increasing visibility of craft-based techniques within the contemporary canon. Merleau Pontys Phenomenology. ISEA2015 submission 237. Artist Profile: Kevina-Jo Smith. ‘Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present’ at ICA Boston. Architecture / Art / Neuroscience. SHEILA HICKS - photos. Invasive crochet: Lace doilies and razor wire. New Knit Wool Electronics and Street Style Classics by Jessica Dance. Sculpture – Jonathan Brilliant. What is…string art? Art Radar explains. As part of our “What is…?” Dynamic Emotions - Hiromi Tango. "Ultimately this body of work by Hiromi Tango as manifest by the complexity of the artworks encourages us to consider the role of empathy in modern society and the potential cost of either our empathic or non-empathic attunement with society. Glam Adelaide on Instagram: “Hello Rundle Mall sculptures... You brighten our nights □ pic by Glam's @kellynoble”
Haselton 08 2011. ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2014 : GREENAWAY ART GALLERY : ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA. GAGPROJECTS in association with Greenaway Art Gallery presents JUZ KITSON at Art Stage Singapore 16 - 19 January, 2014 Marina Bay Sands GAGPROJECTS presents a large-scale installation by emerging artist Juz Kitson in the Australia Platform at Art Stage Singapore this January. There is a sense of oozing heaviness to Juz Kitson’s large-scale sculptural installation Changing Skin (2013). Chiharu Shiota - Melt. Mixtapes Albums Documentaries About Us Shop. Chiharu Shiota. Master Of Metaphors. Born in Jilin, China, Beili Liu is a contemporary installation artist internationally known for her simplistic artworks to which she gives powerful and insightful narratives. She has a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Literature and Communication and studied a master a in Mixed Media.
Tony Cragg. Tony-cragg.com. 'Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art' in craft + design enquiry; issue 4, 2012 by Edited by Peter McNeil...
Neon Organisms. Tara Donovan, NY.