When you think of fine art, you might think of oil paintings, bronze sculptures or gravity-defying glasswork. You might not think of a colorful quilt, fuzzy felted object or embroidery, perhaps ...
Fiber art is having much more than a moment, with increasing market attention paid to artists working in this medium as well as institutional recognition left and right. As just one prominent example, ...
Nestled in the historic cobblestoned streets of Manhattan's breezy Seaport District is an unsuspecting exhibition orienting us toward the future of contemporary fiber art. The Golden Thread: A Fiber ...
Long caught in the liminal space between craft and something more prestigious, works of thread and fabric are reaching newfound institutional recognition. Sheila Hicks, photographed at her studio in ...
Lakshmi Madhavan’s Kasavu art transforms Kerala’s gold-threaded textile into a modern canvas art, bringing timeless Indian heritage into contemporary homes. With digital prints and AI-generated ...
With pieces such as “Intense & Questioning,” artist Lia Cook recorded viewers’ reactions to an image and used data visualization to weave representations of their reactions back into the work itself.