Hocker Photo/Gregory Benson.
...
by “ prim itive, outsider and
children’s art,” as w ell as by
“ visual fragm ents from my
H ungarian traditions.” Jan
H opkins finds that “ sew ing
and its repetitive m otion”
connects her to the “ narrative
soul” o f each piece and that
using “ materials from nature”
beckons her back home.
T hese m akers, so diverse
in approach, are am ongthe io
invited by the veteran fiber
artist and educator A nn Bad-
deley K eister to show their
w orks alongside her ow n in
an exhibition at the M uskegon
P P M u se u m o f A rt meant to
highlight “ the best contem po-
rary artw orks that em ploy
the ancient crafts o f sew ing,
piecing and em bellishm ent.”
K eister, w hose w ork has
evolved technically from tap-
estry w eavin g to the em bel-
lishment o f pieced and quilted
fabrics, points out that the
selected artists show rever-
ence for traditional textile
objects, but are hardly mired
in the past. T h e w orks in
the exhibition, she w rites,
“exem plify the transcendence
that can occur w hen artists
o f vision em ploy a particular
combination o f traditional
te xtile techniques, som e-
tim es coupled w ith .
..con tem -
porary ideas.” But technique,
w hether tim e-honored
or new -fangled, is never the
w hole point when considering
these com pelling objects. It
is individual vo ices, K eister
says, “ that instill the objects
w ith m a g ic ,.
.. provide their
content and con text” and
invite us to contem plate “ the
resonance o f m eaning and
visual poetry evoked by these
pieces.”— n.s.
P A / Philadelphia
P hiladelph ia M useum o f
A r t:
The slrt o f 'Japanese Craft:
1875 to the Present
to Spring 2009
w w w .philam useum .org
Superb w orks drawn from
the M cBrien collection high-
light Japan’s full appreciation
and nurturing o f its craft art
traditions into and throughout
the 20th century.
© TX /El Paso
R ubin C en ter for the V isu al
A r ts , U n iv ersity o f T ex a s
at E l Paso:
Equilibrium: The Body as Site
to M ar. 21
w w w .utep.edu/artsculture
A sensory experience o f ec-
clectic art featured in
Metal-
smith’s,
200
11
Exhibition
in Print, including Stephanie
H ocker’s
Fear I —Decisions
and
Jieun Park’s
Ring-6 (Break-
away),
catches the view er
by surprise w ith its exuberant
eccentricity.
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