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Indepth Arts News:
"e-textiles: Work of 11 Prominent Artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan."
2002-03-06 until 2002-06-30
Textile Museum of Canada
Tortonto, ON,
CA Canada
e-textiles brings to Toronto the work of 11 prominent artists from Canada,
the United States, Australia and Japan. Making use of the natural world,
portraits, photographs, abstract and computer-inspired imagery, these
artists are creating, through their use of technology, a new weaving
language.
Participating artists are Junichi Arai (Japan); Lia Cook (USA);
Frances Dorsey (Canada); Emily DuBois (USA); Laura Foster Nicholson (USA);
Ruth Scheuing (Canada); Cynthia Schira (USA); Liz Williamson (Australia);
Hideo Yamakuchi (Japan); and Bhakti Ziek (USA).
The historical background is explored through the Textile Museum's permanent
collection in Jacquard Weaving: The Birth of the Digital Image, curated by
Marjike Kerkhoven. A profusion of richly patterned, colourful textiles
from Europe, North America and Japan illustrate the 19th and early 20th
century potential of digital images in cloth.
Also, running is Out of this World: Textiles from the Spirit Realm . The
collection features 17 Islamic prayer rugs from Persia, Turkey and the
Caucasus Mountain region of Russia and Azerbaijan. Their coded pictures of
the Garden of Paradise or of the abstract holy space of a mosque make each
rug into a ritually pure, portable place for workship, a gateway to heaven.
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova and Max Allen.
IMAGE:
Ada Lovelace, Queen of Engines (1999),
Ruth Scheuing
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