San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
April 1 – June 8, 2008
520 South First Street, San Jose
Core Memory/Peripheral Vision
features the work of eight of the most renowned digital Jacquard artists working today. From Lia Cook's intricately textured self and family portraits to Bhakti Ziek's painterly works that create a sense of three-dimensions with their merging of text and natural images, this exhibition shows a range of personal and artistic responses to developments in woven digital technology.
Included artists: Louise Lemieux Berube, Cathy Bolding, Lia Cook,
Victor De La Rosa, Sheila O'Hara, Lisa Lee Peterson, Cynthia Schira,
Bhakti Ziek.
Pixels & Pieces
Pixels & Pieces considers how quiltmakers use of one-patch patterns
anticipated the way computers use pixels the acronym for picture
elements to create visually dynamic abstract patterned and pictorial images.
Drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, the exhibit
offers a glimpse of the immense variety and vitality of 19th and 20th century
quilts that deploy discrete, same sized units of colored cloth in repeat
fashion to suggest depth of field, perspective, a landscape and a still life.
Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen
is a selection of art quilts by a self-described computer nerd and one of the world's foremost experts on computer-generated quilt design. Hansen's gorgeously and intricately designed and executed art quilts definitely feel of-the-moment but also owe a debt of gratitude to the Op-Art of the 1960s. Hansen has mastered the use of bold geometry and concentric lines to achieve surprising beauty at the same time fooling your eye into seeing vibration, depth and motion.
Awareables: Conscious Clothing
is an exhibition of works by artists
who were featured in the SIGGRAPH fashion show Unravel. This exhibition
of 'aware' wearables demonstrates the imaginative and innovative works possible
at the intersection of technology and fiber art.
Jacket Antics, Barbara Layne's and research assistants at Studio subTela's
LED-embedded jackets that react when their wearers touch.
Knitter's Tapestry, Daniela K. Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai's dress knitted
of videotape that itself tells the story of the knitter's journey that
it has recorded.
Peau d'Ane, Valerie Lamontagne's creations which brings 'impossible' dresses
from the fairy tale of the same name to life, including dresses that transform
based on atmospheric data and changes in the sun and moon.
Disappearing Dress, a video of a dress constructed of a water soluble polymer
which, when dissolved, turns into a liquid gel which can be reconstituted into a
solid once more or used to grow plants. Created by artist and designer Helen
Storey, Tony Ryan, scientist, University of Sheffield and Trish Belford, textile
designer at Interface at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.
408-971-0323;
http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org
Museum Hours: 10am - 5PM, Tuesday through Sunday. Open till 8pm Thursdays.
de Young Museum, Textile Gallery
December 15, 2007 – September 7, 2008
For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving
Approximately 40 premier examples of Turkmen carpets and tent trappings from
the Fine Arts Museums' renowned collection. Carpets and other pile textiles
woven by the nomadic and semi-nomadic Turkmen tribes of Central Asia are some
of the most widely admired and passionately collected of all
"oriental" rugs. They are also among the most challenging to
study. The long political isolation of Central Asia, the geographic and
linguistic remoteness of its people, the sheer number of Turkmen tribes and
sub-tribes, and the complexity of their movements and interactions over time
have been major impediments to understanding the history of these carpets
Textile Arts Council Lectures
Saturday, May 10, 2008 10 am
Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Drive
San Francisco, CA
Crossing Stitches and Crossing Borders: lu Mien Embroidery in a Global
Community
Sandra Cate,
a folklorist and anthropologist, will present the ongoing relevance of lu
Mien (Laos and Thailand) traditional clothing, which reflects the many
changes these people – in California and Southeast Asia – have
encountered. A Mien woman from the Bay Area will demonstrate the intricate
cross-stitched motifs and answer questions about Mien needlework and the
clothing items on display. This event is free to TAC members.
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 10 a.m.
Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum
Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007
Gerhardt Knodel will discuss the legacy he and Jane Lackey have built
at Cranbrook and share his own recent body of work.
$5 for TAC and FAMSF members, $10 for general public.
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 10 a.m.
Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum
Golden Waterfalls, Windblown Pines: The Story of Kimono
Betsy Sterling Benjamin,
a specialist and rizome artist who lived and taught in Kyoto for 18 years, will
look at history and fashion of kimono, and the craft that produces this
wearable art.
(415) 750-3627 for information,
Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 AM - 3 PM
http://www.textileartscouncil.org
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Ongoing
103 Kroeber Hall, Bancroft and College Ave.
UC Berkeley
From the Land of the Rajas: Creativity in Rajasthan
Curator: Ira Jacknis
Rajasthani arts are distinguished by a complex interplay between court and
village traditions, especially evident in those used in ritual performances.
The exhibition focuses on festival and religious arts, especially those
concerned with pictorial narrative.
From the Land of the Rajas explores how and why this art was made, by
considering the social and cultural contexts of visual artistry in Rajasthan.
In this exhibition, about 150 objects are arranged according to a combination
of form and function, reflecting how different kinds of objects are used and
seen in different settings: the home, fields, fair, theater, temple, shrine,
market, and court.
http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu
Hours 10 am - 4:30 pm, Wed through Sat; Noon to 4 pm, Sunday.
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