Posts Tagged "fiber arts"

Rachel Denny makes domestic trophies out of  hand knitted wool and carved foam. They almost look like hand puppets coming out of the wall. There’s also something a little suffocating about them…

Janine Antoni is by no means a new artist on the scene, but her work somehow always remains fresh. Her stuff reminds me of Kiki Smith’s work. The above piece in particular (made entirely of rawhide!) strikes a similar chord as Smith’s ‘Tale’ sculpture.

PBS did a great documentary on Antoni a few years back as part of their Art 21 film series. The documentary explores her tendency to blur the line between everyday life and performance art:

“She has chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness, and used the brainwave signals recorded while she dreamed at night as a pattern for weaving a blanket the following morning.”  Whoa.