Jul 12th 2024

Veil, Drape, and Stitch

@ Zolla / Lieberman Gallery

325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654

Opening Friday, July 12th, from 4PM - 7PM

On view through Thursday, August 15th

Veil, Drape, and Stitch
Meghan Borah, Tavin Davis, Hale Ekinci, Michelle Grabner, Dan Gunn, Sam Jaffe, Laurel Izard, Riley Lynch, Nicole Mazza, Matt Morris, Mikey Mosher, Ruth L. Poor, Lauren Schoepflin, Maria Tomasula, Xingyi Zhao.

curated by Ruth L. Poor

The persisting relationship between textiles and our everyday lives is almost innumerable. From the worldly embrace of our clothing to the veiling of holy objects, uses range from the sacred to the profane. The work in this show represents physical, conceptual, and illusionary representations of fibers. Some artists have chosen the proliferation of patterns and repetition in cloth as a source of inspiration. Others have rummaged through perceived scraps and incorporated them through the treasure of quiltmaking and collage. Painted presentations range from dramatic draping like the grand weight of theater curtains to sheer, voluminous shrouds. Embroidery artists use stitching to tell time, embellish, or emphasize the piercing of woven structures. Our expansive range of use and relationship to cloth can be used to comfort, bind, and exalt in the same ways the artists chosen for this exhibition have represented the life of textiles.

 

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