Saturday, November 12, 2011

7. FIBER


FIBER ART and Soft Sculpture: Sewing, Embroidery, Felting, Quilting, Weaving, Knitting, and Crochet
Everything from costume design to interactive installations, crocheted objects, embroidered wall hangings, quilts and more can be explored through fiber arts.


Video Links:
Beginning Sewing tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaZBTMzkoY

Selected Texts:
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design Catalog 2008
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design Catalog 2009
Fiber R/Evolution by Russell Bowman, Milwaukee Art Museum 1986


Selected Fiber/Soft Sculpture Artists: Ghada Amer, Xenobia Baily, Clarina Bezzola, Alexandra Bircken, Nick Cave, Jim Drain, Tracy Emin, Orly Genger, Jann Haworth, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Ferne Jacobs, Anette Messager, Marcie Miller-Gross, Ernesto Neto, Claes Oldenburg, Iviva Olenick, Joyce Scott, Faith Wilding, Anne Wilson


Claes Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966

Ernesto Neto, Leviathan Thot, 2006

Ernesto Neto, Intimacy, 2006, Textile, Nylon Stockings, Glass Beads, Styrofoam

Faith Wilding, from Womanhouse: Web Room (Crocheted Environment), 1972
 
Orly Genger, Big Boss, 2010
Xenobia Baily, Sistah Paradise Great Wall of Fire Revival Tent, 1999

Jim Drain, Untitled, 2010
  
Nick Cave, Soundsuit

Nick Cave, Soundsuit

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