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Catalogue: Volume 11-20
Portfolio Vol 11: Marian Smit (The Netherlands)
Marjolein van der Stoep, introduction by Anne Kloosterboer
1st Prize winner in Third International Paper Triennial, Switzerland, 1999.
"Work of great simplicity combining
technique and poetry." Jury
"It might be comforting to classify an artist who is working with paper as a paper artist, but in the case of Marian Smit that would too simple: her work travels beyond the borders of painting, sculpture and architecture. Though based on solid craftsmanship and derived from textile traditions, boundaries soon become blurred..." Anne Kloosterboer, Assistant Curator, Museum Rijswijk
www.galeries.nl/mnexpo.asp?exponr=25896
ISBN: 1 902015 46 0
English, Dutch and Japanese edition; 27 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm square
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Portfolio Vol 12: Tanaka Chiyoko (Japan)
Lesley Millar, Takeo Uchiyama
Foreword by Takeo Uchiyama, the Director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Essay "At the still point: time present and time past" by Lesley Millar, a textile artist and Curator.
Tanaka Chiyoko has work in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany; The Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; The Pulitzer Collection, St. Louis, USA; Passage de Retz, Paris, France; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tanaka’s weavings are influenced by her spiritual and physical relationship with her surroundings. The book includes drawings by the artist.
artist info at
http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1008
ISBN: 1 902015 24 X (softback)
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English. 28 colour photos, 2 b&w, 22cm x 22cm; 48 pages
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Portfolio Vol 14: Lia Cook (USA)
Jenni Sorkin, Meredith Tromble and Melissa Leventon
Book contains three different texts in addition to Artist's Biography:
Rapt in Memory: The Art of Lia Cook by Meredith Tromble.
Weaving Possession by Jenni Sorkin, winner of 2004 Art Journal Award
foreword by Melissa Leventon
"Textiles have long been the art world's step-child, but in Lia Cook's world they are central. Among the conventions that she overturns is the most basic relation between painting and cloth...In essence, Cook treated painting and weaving as equal partners in the creation of art. ...Cook's most recent Jacquard weavings, which are the subject of this book, exhibit the sensuality and ambiguity, the brilliant sense of colour, the large scale and magnification of detail, the love of texture, and the fusion of artistic disciplines, that has long characterized her work." [adapted from the foreword by Melissa Leventon, formerly Curator-in-Charge of Textiles at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco.]
http://www.liacook.com/
ISBN: 1 902015 34 7 (softback)
32 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages
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Portfolio Vol 15: Jane Lackey (USA)
Introduction by Buzz Spector; Foreword by Irene Hofmann; 'Distillations' by Helga Pakasaar
With meticulous craft and profound critical awareness Jane Lackey has produced a body of artworks that image the codes of physical being through the processes of the studio. Lackey's painted panels and shaped felt drawings are exquisitely skinlike, evoking the body's outer covering through tenderly but relentlessly worked surfaces. In recent work she has explored ways of representing the human genome through acts of artistic surgery performed upon dictionaries...traces of parinting can be read across these panoramic fields of cut edges as subtly varied striations, remeniscent of the gels and smears studied in genetic laboratories...These genomic references are paired with snippets of readable text; sentences or phrases containing misspellings that are the equivalent of a code altered in transmission. [From the introduction by Buzz Spector, artist, writer and Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York]
"Jane Lackey creates works that explore the territory between art, science and linguistics..." [from the Foreword by Irene Hoffman, Curator of Contemporary Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
http://www.janelackey.com/
ISBN: 1 902015 35 5
26 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm
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Portfolio Vol 16: Gerhardt Knodel (USA)
Marsha Miro
"Gerhardt Knodel's work with fiber has ranged from installations, theatre and architectural commissions to the pictorial potential of weaving. He was a major participant in the expansive fiber art movement of the 1970s, which exploited the medium's sculptural applications as a pliable and versatile, yet humanizing, manipulator of space. Among the first to recognize fabric's potential for encompassing vast interior spaces, Knodel initiated the genre of modular suspended fabric environments, which played on cloth's flexibility, its movability and its sensitivity to light. Knodel's lifelong interest in ancient and traditional uses of textile has inclined his philosophy towards a holistic, almost pantheistic, expression and the canon that art (or craft) has the responsibility to be nurturing to our spirit. his works take up that challenge."
from the introduction by Cheryl White
Gerhardt Knodel is Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Vice President of Cranbrook Educational Community. His architectural projects include a woven wall-curtain for a project designed by Boston architect Michael McKinnell in Reading, Pennsylvania; a stairwell project for Siemen’s Corporation, Minoru Yamasaki Associates, architects; a woven screen spanning the full height and length of a four-story atrium at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan; a series of woven “scrolls” surrounding the sanctuary of a synagogue; and a stained glass and fabric oculus that forms the visual center of a project designed by Kenneth Neumann, architect.
ISBN: 1 902015 47 9
28 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm, soft cover
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Portfolio Vol 17: Kyoung Ae Cho (USA/S Korea)
Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel; Essay by H. L. Hix; Remeniscences by the Artist
"The work of Kyoung Ae Cho is informed by two disparate worlds: a richly nuanced biological world with accessible evolving patterns of growth, and a complex, diverse realm of digital information that continues to expand progressively. For the artist, each of these two contrasting realms has its own allure. For Kyoung Ae Cho, the place between is a platform for reaction that is vibrant with contemporary potential."
from the Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel.
http://www.kyoungaecho.com/
ISBN: 1 902015 49 5 (softback)
Korean and English text. 48 pages, 22cm x22cm, 27 colour photos
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Portfolio Vol 18: Jason Pollen (USA)
H. L Hix; foreword by Patricia Malarcher
Jason Pollen's work trusts the transcendent to assert itself in silk and color, as it does in dance and music, those other means, in Yeats's words, "of conversing with eternity" [H. L Hix] "When I first saw Jason Pollen's textiles at a New York Gallery in the early 90s, my attention was immediately riveted. In each work, layers of brilliantly dyed silk particles were invisibly fused to a transparent surface. the pieces of silk were like brush strokes detached from a canvas, or molecules suspended in a solution". [Patricia Malarcher]
ISBN: 1 902015 738 (softback)
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Portfolio Vol 19: Barbara Layne (USA/Canada)
Sarah Quinton & Cheryl Simon
"Textiles are not the cargo that is transported in our personal baggage but a vehicle in which to become more fully engaged in the experience of being. We can become mesmerized in the folds, hold conversations in the web, and find complications in the texture. They tell the stories of a vintage Dior in a pile of unsorted thrift-store clothing, of being rooted in a wool plaid, flirting along the bouncy hem of a flared skirt, or admiring the brilliant red algodon that is the reslilience of the Maya." [Barbara Layne]. "Layne has contributed to the larger subject of contemporary art and research through the lens of many different modes and materials that, significantly, include cyber spatial encounters that are enlivened through her international network of collaborators. Layne has expanded the limits of accessibility, wherein she (re)distributes textiles via the internet in a deliberate - yet unpredictable - program of exchange. She circulates digitized information about textile artifacts (both text and image) and creates suprisingly new contexts for them. Her creative project might best be described as a mechanism for the creation of 'democratic wonder' - conversant, challenging and amusing." [from the Foreword by Sarah Quinton, Contemporary Curator, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto]
ISBN: 1 902015 75 4 (softback)
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