Poplar Gallery.Online invites you to view Bridge Work, a recent public art commission conceived and hand-made by artists Marci Simkulet and Stefanie Wong. 150 banners utilizing a variety of textile media including knitting, weaving and felt-making have been created for seven urban bridges spanning the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta. In many of the banners recycled materials (including old bridge banners) are used. These are applied in a site-specific manner, addressing the particular history and context of individual bridges. A massive undertaking, Bridge Work presents a compelling intersection of the hand-made and the architectural. Designed to be viewed by both pedestrians and drivers who use these bridges every day, Wong and Simkulet’s bridge banners are at once a humane and thoughtful presence in an urban landscape.
Excerpt of Critical Mass by Hollis Frampton made in 1971.
via Artforum
THANK YOU to all who donated to the first annual ArtClothTextCares event! Together we have raised $1280 for CARE Canada! All donations made after January 15th are eligible to be matched by the government of Canada for the relief effort in Haiti. Anyone interested in making additional donations may visit CARE Canada’s website.
The Art Gallery of Alberta is proud to present the North American premier of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Millers installation: The Murder of Crows, their largest sound installation to date. The work has been shown in Sydney, Berlin and Brazil, but comes to Canadian audiences for the first time as part of the AGA’s opening exhibitions.
The work will occupy the entire third floor of the new Art Gallery of Alberta. Consisting of 98 speakers, The Murder of Crows is a complex interweaving of voice, music and sound that have generated a profound physical impact on the listener. The work has been conceived in acts, but one whose images and narratives structures are created by sound alone. The three-part work, composed in collaboration with Freida Abtan, Tilman Ritter and Titus Maderlechner, is 30 minutes in duration.
Haiti emergency distribution Photo credit Evelyn Hockstein CARE
***UPDATE: We have now surpassed $1100! Thank you to everyone who has made a contribution. If you are still planning on making a donation you have seven days left.***
The first annual ArtClothText Cares event has raised $370 so far. It is my personal goal to raise at least $1000, but am hopeful that we can do more than that. Please consider making a donation to Care Canada today – even $5 will make a difference!
The tragic events unfolding in Haiti in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake have motivated me to refocus our fundraising effort and contribute to CARE Canada’e efforts in that country. *** As you may have heard, the Government of Canada will be matching donations made to Care Canada after January 15, 2010 for the relief effort in Haiti.***
Remember, I will personally match every dollar donated (to a maximum of $500) before January 31, 2010, so your donation will be matched twice!. (Companies or organizations interested in increasing the amount of matching dollars may contact me directly at info@mackenziefrere.com)
To make a safe, secure online donation visit my event page HERE. Thank you so very much for your help!
Warmest regards, Mackenzie Frere
Anne Wilson, “Rewinds” (detail), 2010 Photo: Surabhi Ghos
January 22 to April 25, 2010
The Knoxville Museum of Art is delighted to present Wind/Rewind/Weave, a major exhibition of work by visual artist Anne Wilson. For three decades, Wilson has been regarded as an innovative and remarkable voice in the visual arts. Her work rests at the forefront of artwork connecting conceptualism and handiwork, activism and aesthetics. Through a diverse range of source materials and production methods, Wilson’s practice extends the relational in terms of labor, collaboration, and identity construction.
Wind/Rewind/Weave investigates the global crisis of production and skill based textile labor through three major works: Rewinds, a new sculpture created entirely in glass; video documentation of Wind-Up: Walking the Warp, a 2008 performance in Chicago; and a large site-specific project, Local Industry, that takes the form of an active weaving/winding factory set up in the museum space.
Exhibition, Members Opening: January 21, 5:30pm
Meet the Artist for a public discussion, January 23, 3:00pm
Dorie Millerson, Bridge, 2006. Needlepoint lace, cotton. Photo courtesy the artist.
This exhibition will showcase fibre art created by eight artists from central and eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) who work with time consuming and highly involved textile techniques and processes. Inlay and ikat weaving, papermaking, rug hooking, embroidery, needle lace, hand-dyeing, screen printing and bead weaving will be highlighted and draw attention to labour intensive, time-based work as an integral part of the artists’ practice.
Exhibitiong artists: Hélène Brousseau, J. Penney Burton, Joanna Close, Margaret Forsey, Misha Gingerich, Rilla Marshall, Dorie Millerson, Natasha St. Michael
Curated by J. Penney Burton
Runs 23 January – 04 April 10
Harbourfront Centre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
For more information CLICK HERE
Arron Lowe, Horizon
January 14 through April 11 2010
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Celebrate the exuberance, inventiveness and refinement of fine craft at this exhibition of work from Canada and the Republic of Korea.
Art of Craft showcases 173 spectacular fine craft works in three parts:
Unity & Diversity: Selected Works – 75 pieces from across Canada recently on display at the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale in the Republic of Korea.
By Hand/BC and Yukon – 51 pieces from Canada’s West Coast with a focus on the artists’ creative processes and studio environments.
Craft from the Republic of Korea – 47 pieces demonstrating the excellence of traditional and contemporary crafts.
Presented by Museum of Vancouver in partnership with Craft Council of British Columbia, Canadian Craft Federation, Korean Craft Museum, and the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale.
Shane Waltener’s exhibition at C4RD is an exploration of the practice of drawing through needlecraft and lace making. The artist uses textile weaving techniques to create a new series of works. Musical and dance notation, architectural plans, and scientific graphs and models have been used as patterns for making lace. These 2D images and resulting woven outcomes are shown together highlighting the process of reinterpretation of these coded visual languages, and a re-evaluation of the traditional craft of bobbin lace.
Alongside these works, a couple of Garland pieces will be shown in the exhibition. These are interactive installations, a series started at Tate Britain in 2006, where visitors are invited to weave in space using yarn and various needlecraft techniques. The outcome of two of these works will be shown in the exhibition, while a new piece, Garland #22, will be created over the course of the exhibition by members of the public.
Please join us for the reception for the reception for this exhibition 6 – 8pm Wednesday 20 January 2010 or during the exhibition 20 January – 26 February 2010. Centre for Recent Drawing is open during exhibitions 12 – 6pm from Wednesday to Friday at 2 – 4 Highbury Station Road, Highbury Islington, London. C4RD is a Registered UK Charity 1123530, and would particularly like to acknowledge the support for this exhibition of ARTUPDATE.COM/.
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