Tag: tapestry

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.

Antonio Santin at Marc Straus Gallery

Marc Straus Gallery nods to Mark Rothko’s hovering, painted rectangles of color and Josef Alber’s nests of colored squares on canvas, but the real attraction to Spain-born, New York-based artist Antonio Santin’s paintings is the fact that they’re painted at all.  Resembling tapestries, Santin’s amazing abstract paintings are made with oil paint in a variety of patterns that suggest a 3D surface with something hidden beneath.  (On view on the Lower East Side through Oct 16th).

Antonio Santin, Apana, oil on canvas, 70.8 x 78.7 inches, 2018.

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.

Diedrick Brackens in ‘Los Angeles Bound’ at Thomas Erben Gallery

Maybe it’s the descending pattern of dots or the black rainbow shape in Diedrick Brackens’ tapestry but the text, ‘everything is lovely now’ isn’t quite believable. Instead, this shaggy banner seems to announce a still transitory state. (At Thomas Erben Gallery in Chelsea through Feb 18th).

Diedrick Brackens, get in where you fit in, woven cotton and polyester yarn, 71 x 67 inches, 2016.
Diedrick Brackens, get in where you fit in, woven cotton and polyester yarn, 71 x 67 inches, 2016.

Goshka Macuga at the New Museum

Miroslav Tichy surreptitiously photographed unsuspecting women in the Czech Republic for decades; the resulting images are often celebrated in New York galleries and museums. For her solo show at the New Museum, Polish-born artist Goshka Macuga created this tapestry, featuring women from Tichy’s photos (and other sources) along with two women who wear body suits based on Tichy’s drawings.  The women in the tapestry clean Karl Marx’s tombstone, summoning not workers but women to unite. (At the New Museum through June 26th).

Goshka Macuga, Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, wool tapestry, collection of the Broad Art Foundation, 2013.
Goshka Macuga, Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, wool tapestry, collection of the Broad Art Foundation, 2013.