BravinLee Programs is pleased to reprise The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition, with a second iteration that includes 60 new artists and over a 100 artworks, including 8 site-specific installations.
The Golden Thread: New Adventures in Textile Art by Christian Viveros-Fauné
Excerpt from 2024 Essay
“A practice that encompasses embroidery, tapestry, quilting, carpet design, and much, much more, textile art has undergone a renaissance over the past century. Artists of all types and from every corner of the planet have pushed hard on what can be termed textile, and even harder on the ways in which textile can be considered art. Once marginalized from the hidebound concept of “fine art” because of its functional origins, textile art now appears poised to take advantage of its previous outsider status—principally by asking questions of art’s presumed hierarchies.”