BRECE HONEYCUTT "Birch #3" (2010) handspun wool, birch bark 20 x 25 x 4 in.
Brece Honeycutt makes history-based drawings, sculptures and installations. Her installations have been placed in exterior locations including university campuses, historical houses, non-profit spaces, inner-city parks and in office buildings, museums and galleries. She collaborates and works with the National Park Service, students, historians, gardeners, non-profit organizations, poets, dancers, interpreters, government departments, libraries and senior centers. Honeycutt received an undergraduate degree in art history from Skidmore College and a Master’s degree in sculpture from Columbia University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, and at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. She works with Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY, and Susan Conway Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. She lives in Sheffield, MA and New York, NY.
Read more about other artists participating in String Theory HERE
Artist Dorie Millerson’s “Streetcar” is on display in the Queen Specific window at 787 Queen Street West in Toronto. The gallery is essentially a small display window next to Dufflet Pastries and is always open. If you’re in the neighbourhood, pop by and get yourself a pastry next door!
“Car,” another piece by Millerson is currently on display in “Fiberart International 2010″ at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh and will be traveling to Rochester, NY and San Francisco, CA in 2011.
Although this exhibition closes Tuesday, it bears posting…
Tenderpixel is pleased to welcome back Jeremy Wood. Over the past ten years GPS artist Jeremy Wood has pioneered the act of drawing and mapping with satellite navigation technology by treating himself as a geodesic pencil. His everyday journeys are compiled to map his whereabouts and present a personal cartography that reveals a unique and detailed interaction with space and time. READ MORE
You are invited to view Maternal Lineage, an exhibition of knitted work by Dana Buzzee. “In Maternal Lineage artist Dana Buzzee stitches together the lives of the women in her genealogy. Using knitting, Buzzee investigates their identities and histories.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Poplar Gallery.Online is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions of original work. Craftspeople, artists, curators and studio collectives are encouraged to submit proposals. For information on how to submit your work contact curator Mackenzie Frere at info@mackenziefrere.com
Christian Boltanski, the French artist who works in various media, has always resisted all but the most abstract interpretations of his work. His new exhibit, titled No Man’s Land, on view at the Park Avenue Armory deals with “human identity, memory, and loss”, according to the press release. Still, I couldn’t avoid the overwhelming feeling that this impressive and grandiose installation, with its 60,000 pieces of discarded clothing, is about the Holocaust.
- sink ‘n sour - 2009 industrial woven blanket with embroidered edge cotton, mohair, viscose, acrylic (Detail)
van der Harst is a textile-based artist who works with crochet, knitting, jacquard weaving (above) and mixed media, creating art pieces, wearables and furniture. The artist’s approach is at once experimental, playful and poetic. Her images woven in jacquard were particularly arresting.
I will be in Japan until May 3oth.In the meantime (Re)Fashioning Fibre, curated by Abigail Doan, has opened in NewYork. Here are two links… (Thank you Abigail!)
Lieux de memoire, an exhibition of twelve artists curated by Denis Longchamps, first mounted as part of the Biennale internatinale du lin in Deschambault-Grondines last year, will be opening at La maison de la culture Marie-Uguay June 9, 2010. More on both exhibitions including images coming soon.
Environmental artist and textile writer, Abigail Doan, announces the upcoming exhibit, (Re)Fashioning Fiber opening at Tribeca’s Green Spaces NY on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 6:30pm-8:30pm.
Doan curated this group exhibition as an opportunity to examine new ways of thinking about fiber in relation to the natural environment, our patterns of consumption, and contemporary definitions of fashioning self.
Fiber is one of the most ancient materials used in craftwork, garment production, and shelter fabrication. It serves as a resilient and easily sourced material for many of today’s sustainable design solutions as well as having an impressive history of use in personal adornment. The practice of (re)fashioning, recycling, or altering natural fiber is on the increase in art studios and fashion houses globally. This new wave of eco-crafting seems to highlight the positive ways that fiber is also (re)fashioning our connections to one another as well as our fragile environment.
(Re)Fashioning Fiber includes collaborative environmental fiber art from Iran; handcrafted vegetation jewelry from Bulgaria; sustainable, locally-minded fashion and drawings by Eko-Lab; no-waste textile fashion by Study NY; recycled ‘flotsam fiber’ from the streets of NYC; handmade books spinning tales about a global pilgrimage; crochet tower structures infused with sound; and one-of-a-kind fiber expressions from the domestic realm.
Invited artists and designers include: Abigail Doan, Atefeh Khas (Iran), Brece Honeycutt, Ceca Georgeiva (Bulgaria), Abigail McEnroe, Kaori Yamazaki, Mackenzie Frere (Canada), Matt Pass, Melissa Kirgan, Meiling Chen, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Renata Mann, Sibyll Kalff (Germany), Tara St. James, Tara Goodarzy, Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard. Unless indicated, all other artists/designers are U.S. based.
(Re)Fashioning Fiber will be on view at Green Spaces NY, located at
394 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York from May 20 thru August 13, 2010.
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