Woven Works From Near Here

JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ,AS IN THE SUMMER, SO TOO THE WINTER,2017. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

Woven Works From Near Here

grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC - Sep 7 – Oct 20

by Robin Laurance

Held in conjunction with the Textile Society of America Symposium in Vancouver this fall, this exhibition looks at recent innovations in the traditional weaving practices of both Indigenous artists and artists from settler cultures, “near here” being the North Pacifi c coast. Contributing artists push the possibilities of textile and woven art andat the same time confront regional histories of colonialism, cultural dislocationand newly re-emerging “conceptual, functional, aesthetic and spiritual forms.”

Share this: