This week’s Weekly has my review of New American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Below is the copy with some pictures.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum often collaborates with big-name artists like Cai Quo-Qiang, the fireworks and gunpowder ace whose show opens next month, but what the FWM does even better—as you can see [...]
By libby | October 8, 2009
What a delicious First Friday–a layer cake of delights. I’m putting up a bunch of pictures, hoping they might entice you to take a taste.
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The body is a trickster in the art of Tristin Lowe–it inflates, it deflates, beyond the owner’s control. It’s all a little embarrassing. And yet it’s not to be dismissed or ignored–so much ourselves and so much something beyond our control.
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By libby | October 13, 2008
Gabriel Kuri, Trinity (voucher), handwoven wool Gobelin (woven in Guadalajara)
As soon as I saw Ed Ruscha’s Industrial Strength Sleep tapestry at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, this piece by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri popped into my mind. I had seen it last year at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, in an exhibit of work [...]
First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down.
Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night
Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the [...]
Ed RuschaIn collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaIndustrial Strength Sleep, 2007Merino wool, cotton, and Trevira CS tapestry; edition of 7109 1/2 x 276 inches (278.1 x 701 cm)The Fabric Workshop and Museum, PhiladelphiaPhoto: Aaron Igler and Will Brown
Last June the Fabric Workshop and Museum was bounced from its home at 1315 Cherry Street [...]
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Storefront, by FWM’s artist-in-residence Mark Bradford in collaboration with Juan Carlos Avendaño and FWM; photographic images on static cling film-laminate stock adhering to the windows.
If you are wondering just what’s going on with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, as in where are they and where are they going, you’re not alone. But at last they [...]
