WOVEN HISTORIES: TEXTILES AND MODERN ABSTRACTION
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an exhibition exploring the intersection of abstract art and woven textiles over the past century. The nexus of textiles and abstraction embodies key political, social, economic, and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of the modern era.
Image: Jeffrey Gibson, The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4, 2019, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Lehrman Fund and Millennium Fund, 2023.7.1, © Jeffrey Gibson, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Image above: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition, c. 1918, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Beginning in the first decades of the 20th century, the exhibition presents a diverse range of genres, materials, processes, and technologies, which artists have utilised when probing these issues: painting; basketry; photography and film; woven, knitted and felted cloth; costume; attire; and tapestry. Further, it foregrounds the increasingly important role of textile heritages today as affordances in constructing identity, kinship, and community.
Image: Ellen Lesperance, Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentence to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, 2011, Brooklyn Museum, © Ellen Lesperance
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction will be on show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 17 September 2023 - 21 January 2024.
Find out more:
www.lacma.org
Image: Jeffrey Gibson, The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4, 2019, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Lehrman Fund and Millennium Fund, 2023.7.1, © Jeffrey Gibson, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Image above: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition, c. 1918, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Beginning in the first decades of the 20th century, the exhibition presents a diverse range of genres, materials, processes, and technologies, which artists have utilised when probing these issues: painting; basketry; photography and film; woven, knitted and felted cloth; costume; attire; and tapestry. Further, it foregrounds the increasingly important role of textile heritages today as affordances in constructing identity, kinship, and community.
Image: Ellen Lesperance, Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentence to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, 2011, Brooklyn Museum, © Ellen Lesperance
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction will be on show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 17 September 2023 - 21 January 2024.
Find out more:
www.lacma.org