textile art

Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media…

Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into…

Internationally renowned Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (b. 1977) creates stunning installations using a variety of media, including 

The Gordon Parks Foundation recently opened Bisa Butler: Materfamilias…

In the new special exhibition, Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles, individualism and a flair for experimentation of Navajo weavers are vividly expressed in textiles from the late…
Creating colorful narratives about erotic encounters from needle and thread, Sophia Narrett makes fascinating embroidered artworks that are fueled by love and desire.
Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change will explore the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts…
The year 2020 was shaping up to be a watershed moment in the career of New Jersey-born Brooklyn-based quilt artist Bisa Butler.
The current perception that Afghanistan has always been a war-torn backwater ignores the facts, including a rich history of craftsmanship as evidenced by the synonymous association of quality with an…
Within each sculpture’s apparent beauty, a laborious process, emotional and psychic efforts illustrates Caroline Wayne’s lifelong efforts to reshape and help process a complicated and traumatic past…
The exhibition examines a generation of pioneering artists who used body-related forms to express a personal vision and frames their work in relation to the cultural, historical and social concerns…
Currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus celebrates the centennial of Bauhaus by highlighting 50 works by pioneering fiber and textile artists such as Anni Albers…
The Bee in the Lion is pleased to present In Tension, an exhibition of new works by Dana Nechmad on view at the gallery space from April 29 through June 28.

A powerful new exhibition at New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery, Ravelled Threads brings together work by ten African artists utilizing fabric in different ways. Cloth has cultural and…