#textile-art

#textile-art

'The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.' This quote, attributed to Søren Kierkegaard, encapsulates the title's inspiration and installation's ethos, speaking to the titanic loss that comes from environmental degradation due to climate change. As art evokes emotion, it helps us humans visualize or appreciate the world from which we came, and indeed, where we might be headed.

In monumental installations teeming with sequins, brocades, fringe, and shiny vinyl, Anne von Freyburg stakes a bold claim about excess and freedom. The artist ( previously) is known for her "textile paintings," large-scale tapestries that appear to drip, bleed, and cascade down the wall. Gaudy and yet rooted in elegance, the works draw on Dutch Golden Age and Rococo painting traditions, incoporating lush flowers and dramatic ornamentation.

The industrial-size device includes a computer interface for creating precise patterns, but he prefers to use it like a pencil and paper, doodling swirls directly onto ice-dyed velveteen. The dye is a recent addition to his process. "You go through these periods when the fabric does the talking or when the design does the talking," he tells me. Currently, the fabric is yelling.

Marie Watt's balance of technical precision and expansive vision melds in larger-than-life textile processes and multimedia explorations. Storywork centers stories from her Seneca Nation ancestry, pairing them with references to everything from Greco-Roman myth to Star Trek. The selection of narrative prints appears alongside a sculptural tin jingle cloud. Programming includes an October 2 performance by champion jingle dancer Acosia Red Elk and a campus native plant tour led by the Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge team on October 14.

Exploring transness through soft, quilted terrain, Waters of Body pairs works by Portland artists Yana Sternberger-Moyé, Molly Alloy, and Michael Espinoza with Transmissions Quilts Project, artist Cordy Joan's quilt-making initiative for trans and gender-queer people countrywide. The exhibition joins other interesting shows installed at PNCA: Portland Textile Month's Warp Speed: Contemporary Conversations in Fiber showcases vibrant, fuzzy fiber works from the former Museum of Contemporary Craft's collection, and Angelo Scott's Time-Based Art Festival installation.

Rachel Hayes transforms architectural spaces and natural landscapes into shifting compositions of color and movement with large-scale textile-based installations that are site-specific and vibrant.

Hayes uses color, translucency, and composition to radically reshape the way viewers experience architecture and nature through large-scale, site-specific installations.

I am a painter who uses the loom to paint, and I consider my palette and my words as part of my materials repertoire. My weavings feel spontaneous, but they are meticulously planned from composition to fiber choices.

"It is a very malleable material that reflects the current state of the natural environment, and the surrounding community and personal hand of the maker."