LA POETICA (Nostro Novecento) Ink and gouache drawings, pencil, rescued boro textiles, thread, remnants, and other ephemera sewn on poetry anthology pages Author: Franco Mollia 5 x 7 inches A Textile Sketchbook with drawing, poetry criticism in Italian and modern boro textiles. Reminiscent of so many well-observed altered book shows in the Bay Area, a feeling of who-drew-in-this-book?, with a hint of sandalwood. To see more pages, go here.
OFF TO MONTREAL WITH YOU As part of the research study at Concordia University Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies, Montreal, QUEBEC To be turned into: Visual Essay Textile Tapestry TEXT [excerpt] For the first part of the Lockdown, I was in a 590 sq ft condo downtown. I couldn’t create; I couldn’t think. I think I held my breath for a month while we all watched and waited. Sirens,
A GRACEFUL ARC TOWARD A CAR-LESS WORLD Next to my downtown condo is a large parking lot for the city workers. Overnight, when COVID hit and everyone started working from home, it went from being filled with cars to nearly empty. Instead of seeing drivers circling to find a space to park, I looked out one morning to see a lone roller skater circling the concrete lot: each round a
POST PROJECT 2020: Birds of a Feather Don’t Always Flock Together is a collection of anonymous narratives, some long, some short spoken, read or thought during the COVID lockdown from mid April 2020 to end of June 2020. My piece was about being in lockdown in a small downtown condo. There were 45 contributors from UK and around the world.
TEXTILE SKETCHBOOK II (Quiet Jenny) Pencil, indigo-dyed textiles, paint, thread, colored pencil, old book pages Textile sketchbooks are my way of reasoning. Of working through, and of accepting and embracing randomness and pushing forward. If a part lands a certain way, I try not to move it. I have dozens of these pages; if I am lucky one of them works and shows me the way. The yellowing and brittleness
I fell hard for San Francisco the first time I saw it. I vowed to come back and did—40 years ago. Friends joke it is my longest relationship (OK, true). Like a real lover, it has thrilled and frustrated me. I threatened to leave many times, but always stayed. How could I leave my true love? Now in my 60s, substandard housing and the threat of disasters has me worn
MAD et LEN is a Parisian artisanal scent company with a quote from Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” at the core of their work. They recently chose one of my IMPACT drawings on Instagram as graphite inspiration for their Monochrome Graphite parfum: scent of grey, of cropped Japanese hinoki wood. THE SMELL AND TASTE OF THINGS REMAIN POISED A LONG TIME, LIKE SOULS, READY TO REMIND US, WAITING AND HOPING FOR
PACK YOUR BAGS SOMETHING SMALL I sit in the middle of the intersection (of art, design + craft). It is safe to be here as an artist. Some doubt that–but is it art? If the artist is showing… it is. Is it forward looking? Yes. Poetic? Very. “I have a portable home that I always carry with me which is literature and memories.” — Writer Azar Nafisi about her life
We Move Lightly… Un/Common Threads A solo exhibition by Bay Area artist Barbara Bryn Klare exploring art and sustainability through a rich and complex practice weaving together rescued textiles, objects and natural elements. Through June 6th. of the day: We Move Lightly by Dustin O’Halloran
IN PURSUIT OF ERROR This image is a blurred lower right section of a John Gossage (b. New York, 1946) collage from the series “Hey, Fuckface” showing at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco. John Gossage is a photographer noted for exploring under-recognized elements of the urban environment, abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage. The series consists of collages made from silver gelatin prints and torn-up, used craft paper with
I was lucky to be part of Cambridge (UK) Sustainability Residency 2016 back when it was still active. CSRes is/was an artist-led project for artists working in the field of sustainability. The theme was Growth and Insulation. Using the analogy of the endangered species, I explored current challenges to sustaining Pashmina textile tradition, including growing political, economic, environmental and aesthetic pressures, the dilution and mis-marking of the Pashmina label, and the growth of fast fashion/imitation Pashmina
ragged tattered patched wrecked beauty + decaying form . things fragile, handmade or in need of repair boro inspired
Huffington Post contributor Bill Lichtenstein reviews WHERE Were You Harassed? and other art pieces in the light of current events and mounting claims of sexual harassment in all realms of American culture and politics. Read the review.
Awarded a 2017 Research Grant from The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC I will be researching the cultural, sociological and aesthetic relevance of traditional Japanese boro textiles to contemporary craft, art and design. Topics to explore include: Repair, Visible Mending and Slow Stitching Respect for Materials, Time, Labor and Resources The Decaying Form Elevating the Commonplace or Discarded: the Found Object The Human Touch, Seeing the Hand at
Indigo-dyed cloth on paper 22” x 28″ 2017 On display at DZINE Gallery, 128 Utah St, San Francisco, as part of Tracks and Echoes, which runs through April 2018.
Quiet, Stillness and the Right Kind of Noise My art practice so far consists of me, sitting at a low table in my studio, with my face pointed away from the door, hunched over my drawings. My studio is on the second floor of a building that once was the headquarters for officers in the Air Force; the building and the field around is now for civilian use. The ceiling
GALLERY DRAWINGS: Drawing on scraps of life Artist Martin Kippenberger made hundreds of drawings on hotel stationery, “Hotel Drawings,” a kind of travel diary. These are sketches on museum ephemera–my own rough mnemonic–from a treasured trip to Berlin in 2017. SHOW: ART ON HOTEL NOTE PAPER 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
I am one of 120+ international artists collaborating on the UDHR Quilt project led by Tal Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Dunlap in Melbourne, Australia. I am illustrating Article 13 using a backdrop of Trump giving a speech on the US Travel Ban. My process will be documented as part of my online residency at @4rt4u. Article 13: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the
International Fiber Arts VIII, 28 July to 3 Sept 2017 — Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA Biennial exhibition, in collaboration with Surface Design Association, for national and international artists doing innovative and traditional fiber art work, contemporary concepts using either traditional or unusual materials. My piece, Rams Horns, was accepted into this exhibition. Jurors: Wendy Lugg, Jason Pollen and Eszter Bornemisza. Link: FIBER ART VIII International Biennial Fiber Arts Exhibition
MODERN LOVE/MODERN SAMPLER was shown at World of Threads Festival, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario October 2016 “Amusing, moving… a tale of a broken heart”– Kit Lang Art