Tag: jacquard

Robin Kang in ‘Pool Party’ at C24 Gallery

Robin Kang morphs circuit board imagery into patterns resembling peacock feathers in a textile created with a digitally operated Jacquard hand loom.  An abundance of gold from metallic yarns suggests a link to the divine, the receding space a throne-like seat or corridor leading to the beyond.  (On view in ‘Pool Party’ organized by Field Projects at C24 Gallery in Chelsea through Sept 21st).


Robin Kang, Daggerwing, hand jacquard woven wool, chenille, hand dyed cotton and metallic yarns, 53 x 65 inches, 2016.

Gerhard Richter at FLAG Art Foundation

To create the Rorschach-like image on this tapestry, German painter Gerhard Richter quartered and flipped a section from a 1990 abstract painting. At around nine feet tall and twelve feet wide, the complexity of its large surface boggles and its presence is both powerful and yet more ephemeral than the artist’s paintings. (At FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea through May 13th).

Gerhard Richter, YUSUF, jacquard woven tapestry, 108 11/16 x 148 13/16 inches, 2009.

Mika Tajima at Eleven Rivington

As part of a residency at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, New York artist Mika Tajima created textiles with a fascinating back story. Taking recordings from factories using Jacquard looms (a precursor to digital) and from server co-location sites (representing new technologies), she translated the sound waves into patterns woven on fabric which was then mounted on acoustic panels to create an object that simultaneously is cutting edge and historical. (At Eleven Rivington on the Lower East Side through April 13th).

Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy (Caledonia Dye Works, quad), cotton, wood, acoustic baffling felt; made in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 78 x 54 inches, 2014.

Kiki Smith at Pace Gallery

Titled ‘Wonder,’ New York artist Kiki Smith’s latest solo show at Pace Gallery includes a magnified sculpture of hoarfrost (along with a rabbit), jacquard tapestries of a nude in a tree and soaring eagles all of which posit nature as a source of astonishment and pleasure. (In Chelsea at Pace’s 510 West 25th St location through March 29th).

Kiki Smith, installation view of ‘Wonder,’ in foreground, ‘Hoarfrost with Rabbit,’ stainless steel, 2014, at Pace Gallery, March 2014.