Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles
Library Street Collective is pleased to present Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles, a group exhibition curated by Allison Glenn, Artistic Director of the Shepherd. Warp and Weft considers how artists experiment with new technologies, interrogate materials, and embed innovative, inherited, familial, or ancestral epistemologies into their practices, to foreground narrative and allegory. From the invention of and subsequent improvements to the Jacquard loom, to the reframing of traditional weaving styles, and the incorporation of computers and other forms of machination, there is a long history of technologies located within, and born of, deep engagements with textiles. Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles brings together a wide spectrum of styles, histories, and approaches. Many artists in Warp and Weft have primarily textile-based practices, while others incorporate textiles and fabrics into largely experimental bodies of work. This range speaks to the materials鈥� expansiveness.
Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles presents artists with practices that are rooted in the haptic, presenting a wide range of approaches.
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Library Street Collective is pleased to present Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles, a group exhibition curated by Allison Glenn, Artistic Director of the Shepherd. Warp and Weft considers how artists experiment with new technologies, interrogate materials, and embed innovative, inherited, familial, or ancestral epistemologies into their practices, to foreground narrative and allegory. From the invention of and subsequent improvements to the Jacquard loom, to the reframing of traditional weaving styles, and the incorporation of computers and other forms of machination, there is a long history of technologies located within, and born of, deep engagements with textiles. Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles brings together a wide spectrum of styles, histories, and approaches. Many artists in Warp and Weft have primarily textile-based practices, while others incorporate textiles and fabrics into largely experimental bodies of work. This range speaks to the materials鈥� expansiveness.
Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles presents artists with practices that are rooted in the haptic, presenting a wide range of approaches.
Artists on show
- Akea Brionne
- Alisha Wormsley
- Allie McGhee
- Angélica Serech
- Basil Kincaid
- Billie Zangewa
- Carole Harris
- Cyrah Dardas
- Diedrick Brackens
- Eric-Paul Riege
- Esteban Ramón Pérez
- Gary Tyler
- Ishmael Butler
- James Benjamin Franklin
- Jason Revok
- Joey Quiñones
- Josefina Concha
- Kalyn Fay Barnoski
- Kamau Amu Patton
- Kite
- Lisa Alberts
- Liz Collins
- Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes
- Maren Hassinger
- Margaret Hull
- Melissa Cody
- Melissa Webb
- Nep Sidhu
- Nicholas Galanin
- Patrick Dean Hubbell
- Raphaël Barontini
- Sarah Zapata
- Teresa Baker
- Teresa Baker
- Tiff Massey
- Tyrrell Winston
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