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Cut Papers by Sachiko Abe

Cut Papers by Sachiko Abe

Japanese artist Sachiko Abe’s work encompasses performance, drawing, film and sculptural installations using cut papers accumulated over the last eight years. Her practice explores duration, repetition and constraints. As part of her performance 'Cut…

Airy Thread Installation Art by Kate Terry

Airy Thread Installation Art by Kate Terry

London-based artist Kate Terry creates thread installation art that is nearly invisible at first, then slowly reveals itself to the naked eye.  Using colored thread, she creates subtle yet spectacular presence in an empty…

Adrian Esparza's Lines of Thought

Adrian Esparza’s Lines of Thought

In his newly made work for the exhibition "Lines of Thought", Texas-based Adrian Esparza mounts a Mexican serape (blanket) on the wall, then partially unravels it. Inspired by historic landscape paintings he guides the…

Stalemate by Beili Liu

Stalemate by Beili Liu

Here is another thread-and-needle inspired installation by Austin-based artist Beili Liu. 'Stalemate (针锋相对)' is consisted of two 18 feet long elements suspended in space by hundreds of cotton strings, which radiate from the…

Drawn Pink by Anne Lindberg

Drawn Pink by Anne Lindberg

This forty-foot installation 'Drawn Pink' by Kansas City artist Anne Lindberg is featured in the exhibition "Placemakers".  It is composed of Egyptian cotton thread and staples creating luminous spatial passages and forms. The exhibition also…

Embroidered Porcelain by Diem Chau

Embroidered Porcelain by Diem Chau

A Vietnam native, Diem Chau and her family came to America as refugees in 1986. Chau combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, gesture and form, resulting…

Painted Silk Sculptures by Lisa Kellner

Painted Silk Sculptures by Lisa Kellner

Rooted in the language of decay, erosion and disease, my work merges intricate microcosms with immense topographies. ~ Lisa Kellner What you are looking at here is neither high speed photography of dye…

Plexus no. 8 by Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe: Plexus No. 10

Artist Gabriel Dawe, one of our absolute favorites, is having his first UK premiere appearance at that The National Centre for Craft & Design in the East Midlands. The exhibition will centre on…

Debbie Smyth at Hermès

Debbie Smyth at Hermès

Textile artist Debbie Smyth, whose signature "drawing with thread" has gained her fans from all over, was commissioned by Hermès to produce window displays for the "contemporary artisan since 1837" ad campaign.  With…

Collages Made Of Buttons by Ran Hwang

Captivating Button Collages by Ran Hwang

Using materials from the fashion industry, New York-based Korean artist Ran Hwang creates large-scale collages with buttons, pins and thread. Hwang used buttons and thread because of their material properties, and symbolism, later, she…

black and red nylon sculpture by Robert Currie

Threaded Nylon Sculptures by Robert Currie

London-based artist Robert Currie creates sculptures and installation meticulously constructed in nylon and videotape. What's unique about these visualisations of force is the unmistakable human touch. Currie constructs each piece by hand, precisely…

Thread Drawings by Debbie Smyth

Thread Drawings by Debbie Smyth

British textile artist Debbie Smyth uses pins and thread to "draw" on blank walls and space.  She first outlines her work with pins, then joins each pin with thread meticulously.  Her choice of…

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The Queer Houses of Brooklyn

The title of this work, drumroll please : The Queer Houses of Brooklyn and the Three Towns of Boswyck, Breukelen and Midwout in the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era. It is the latest work…

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Memory of Books by Chiharu Shiota

'Memory of Books' is a site-specific, evocative new installation presented at he 54th Venice Biennale, created with countless strands of black wool suspended from the walls, floors and ceiling. Criss-crossing the space the wool…

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The Mending Project by Beili Liu

The installation by Texas-based Chinese artist Beili Liu consists of hundreds of Chinese scissors suspended from the ceiling, pointing downwards. The hovering, massive cloud of scissors alludes to distant fear, looming violence and…

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Golden Steps by Beili Liu

The site-specific installation is conceived and created in response to the unusual architecture space at Form, Space/ Altelier. Stetched from the oppsite walls perbedicular to the staris’ path, the parallel golden threads form…

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Artist Gabriel Dawe was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in…

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Red Thread Series by Beili Liu

The ancient Chinese legend of the red thread tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of…

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