Contemporary Textile opens August 11, 2021, at Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe. Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday, and admission is FREE. Visit www.salinaartcenter.org for gallery hours and additional programming information. The exhibition runs through October 3, 2021.
Contemporary Textile spans a wide range of fiber-art practices, including quilting, thread painting, lacework, beading, and weaving. Weaving, and our basic understanding of loom, warp, and weft, stretch to cover such divergent applications as computer-generated Jacquard, tapestry, and even sculpture. Artists in this group exhibition challenge our conventional understanding of thread, fiber, cloth, and embroidery.
Heralding from Salina, Kansas City, New York, Chicago, and Eugene, this divergent group of artists introduces a variety of scales from small intricately woven handmade embellishments to large fabric installations. Exhibiting Artists include Shawn Marie Delker, Leadell Ediger, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Rachelle Gardner-Roe, Jean Hamilton, Ellie Murphy, kg, Jovencio de la Paz, Kathryne Perney, Jason Pollen, Casey Whittier, Kristy Yenkey, and Jillian Youngbird.
Contemporary Textile is funded by Art Center donors, members, and the Salina Art Center Endowment Foundation, along with the Horizons Grants Program of the Salina Arts and Humanities Foundation, a private donor group.
Guests are encouraged to wear masks.
Attached:
Jovencio de la Paz, Bionumeric Organisms 2.0, 2021, handwoven TC2 textile and
canvas, cotton, 36 x 24 in., photography by Mario Gallucci, courtesy of Holding
Contemporary.
Shawn Marie Delker, The Eye of the Storm, 2015, cotton and hand-dyed silk, 31.25 x
34.5 in., photography by David Delker, courtesy of the artist.
Casey Whittier, Weather the Weather/Whatever the Weather, 2018, earthenware and
steel, 46 x 38 x 46 in., photography by Brandon Forrest Frederick, courtesy the artist.
