The monumental textile exhibition that took over an 18th-century warehouse final spring is again for a second iteration.
Within the South Avenue Seaport space of Manhattan, The Golden Thread 2: A Fiber Artwork Present returns with greater than 100 artworks made by 60 artists from across the globe. As with the first iteration, this reprisal contains eight site-specific installations that reply to the previous mercantile area.
Organized by BranvinLee, The Golden Thread is a sweeping survey of latest fiber artwork encompassing an enormous array of supplies, aesthetics, and material. A number of artists join textiles’ historic affiliation with femininity and domesticity, together with Ana María Hernando’s pair of cascading tulle works. Ceaselessly working with the gossamer cloth, Hernando sees her sculptures as an act of insurrection through which “softness becomes less a discreet quality and more a function of power, both formally and symbolically.”
Equally, Diana Weymar presents “American Sampler,” a set of embroidered, typographic works made throughout a five-year interval. Created to showcase a girl’s talent and literacy all through the 18th century, samplers have an extended historical past as websites of female expression. Weymar attracts on this legacy for this patchwork tapestry, which is a part of her ongoing Tiny Pricks Venture created in 2018 in response to Donald Trump’s tumultuous first time period.
Colossal readers will acknowledge a number of artists on this second exhibition, together with Caitlin McCormack, Rima Day, Willie Cole, and Ulla-Stina Wikander. The Golden Thread is on view by Might 16.
