Opening Reception will be March 13 6-9pm with light refreshments and drinks by Ravendark Cocktails. The exhibit will run through March.
From our curator, Teryn Brown:
The process of intuiting + clairvoyance + meditation resulting from practicing handiwork and repetitive craft.
Sitting quietly with your hands busy, letting thoughts flow and take you to secret, intangible realms, or giving insight into life and our relationship to it.
The communicative properties of fiber art throughout history into modernity, i.e. woven fibers as storytelling, the relationship between modern computer graphics/ processing and textile weaving, fashion & fiber as communication- esp underground styles or subversive adornment.
The diverse and long lineages of fiber arts & handicraft, passed down through generations of craftspeople. I like to imagine that artist's DNA is encoded with the genetic memory of generations and generations of craftspeople in their family trees, thousands of hands that have threaded metal and bone needles, stitched and sewn clothing, woven and spun fiber stories to adorn their families, homes, & communities.
Truly there are an eternity of messages and stories being told through and with fiber. It's a long, tangential conversation, replete with loose + abandoned threads, interwoven with subjugation and ingenuity- a tangled mess that skilled hands can transform into beautiful, wearable, decorative, and utilitarian artworks.
"Message From The Threads" will be on view in conjunction with the yearly Bay Area Yarn Crawl, as well as several fiber art themed + focused workshops, events, and gatherings we have planned during the duration of the show.