Fiber Arts:Strategies for Presenting,

Interpreting & Sharing

It’s What’s for Dinner2010

knitted yarn & found object(old meat grinder)

16 × 16 × 6 in. (dimensions variable)© Stacey R Chinn

Barbara Chase-RiboudLa Musica Red #4, 2003, bronze with red patina and silk

30 x 15 x 32 in. ( 76.2 x 38.1 x 81.3 cm)Courtesy of the artist and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Women and Fiber Art

Barbara Chase-RiboudTantra #42007polished bronze and silk, 78 ½ x 47 ½ x 27 ¾ in.Courtesy of the artist and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Untitled2003

aluminum and sisal144 x 52 x 52 in.

© Stacey R Chinn

Sheila HicksPrayer Wall, 2012

linen72 x 46 x 6 in.

(182.9 x 116.8 x 15.2 cm)© Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Women and Fiber Art

Claire ZeislerUntitled, 1968

jute with metal and wood base47 x 63 x 64 in. (dimensions variable)© Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Lenore TawneyDark River Wall Hanging,

1961linen and wool 164 x 22 ½ in.

(416.6 x 57.2 cm)Credit Greta Daniel Design Fund

© 2015 Lenore Tawney

Untitled1997

knitted hemp, cast iron and found

object© Stacey R Chinn

Untitled2002

woven industrial felt, steel and found objects© Stacey R Chinn

Untitled2001

knitted cotton, steel and found objects (Philippines

wooden pestles)© Stacey R Chinn

Untitled1997

forged steel, wood, cotton, wax and fishnet

© Stacey R Chinn

Process and Repetition

FoundObjects

Color and Materials

Eva HesseVertiginous Detour

1966acrylic and polyurethane on rope, net, and papier-mâché

diameter of ball: 16 ½ in. (41.9 cm); length of rope: approx. 154 in. (391 cm)

Experimentation

Domestic Functionality

Untitled2005

steel cable, steel and wood

© Stacey R Chinn

Untitled2003

handmade felt, sheet lead and wire

© Stacey R Chinn

Untitled1998

steel wire and graphite on wood

© Stacey R Chinn

Up Close and Personal

Bindle (I Have a Fear of Commitment)2013ink on bed sheet, tree branch and polyester fiberfil114 X 26 X 26 in. (dimensions variable)© Stacey R Chinn

Dressed to the ICD-9s2012screen print on cotton military surgical drape58 X 26 X 20 in. (dimensions variable)© Stacey R Chinn

Louise Bourgeois Femme, 2002

fabric Currently on display in

Bottoms Up: A Sculpture SurveyUniversity of Kentucky Art MuseumCourtesy of Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth

Untitled1995hand stitched cheesecloth and found objects© Stacey R Chinn

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2002, tapestry, aluminium, 45.7 × 30.5 × 30.5 cmCourtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth

© Louise Bourgeois Trust / Licensed by VAGA, New York / Viscopy, Sydney

http://artworldwomen.com/louise-bourgeois-recognizing-the-self-the-artists-way/

Take Flight (left) and Ship Yourself to the Philippines (right) from Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover,CS(A)rt: Community Supported Art program, Lexington Art League, 2013

knitted yarn & found object (left), burlap and styrofoam (right) © Stacey R Chinn

Community through Art

Urban Shawl from offSITE,Lexington Art League, 2013-14

knitted biodegradable flagging tape© Stacey R Chinn

String TheoryJosephine Sculpture Park, 2014-15knitted biodegradable flagging tape© Stacey R Chinn

YeARNing, 2015Lexington Art League’s

Woodland Art Fairarm-knitted tobacco cloth

© Stacey R Chinn

Fortitudine Vincimus (By Endurance We Conquer)2015, military issue rifling mittens, lace fabric, wire, thread and bullet casings

Currently on display in Pretty Aggressive at MS Rezny Gallery© Stacey R Chinn - Photo: Mary Rezny

One Work Says it All(or at least says a lot)

Grave DollPERUVIAN, Nazca or Chancay Peoples

wool, fabric, grass and wood8 ½ x 11 x 10 in. (22 x 28 x 25.5 cm)

Courtesy of University of Kentucky Art Museum (Permanent Collection)

ANNETTE MESSAGER"The Messengers"

Remains (Family II), 200009 August - 03 November 2008

© Annette MessagerMAC/VAL, Musée d’art contemporain Conseil général du Val-de-marne

Photo: Jacque Faujour

http://artnews.org/moritokyo/?exi=16958

• Painting, photography, articles, objects assembled from found objects, words, stuffed animals, plush toys, fabrics, embroidery, thread and knitting: these and many other objects from everyday life have found their way into the art of Annette Messager since she began working in the 1970s. Keeping her work based firmly in everyday life, Messager explores the various dichotomies and contradictions inherent in the human condition: religion and secularity, humor and fear, love and pain, woman and man, animal and human, childhood and adulthood, life and death, surface and substance. Springing perhaps from meditations on impulsive collecting or the body, from games with plush toys, or from clever wordplay, Messager's art possesses both a childlike innocence and a brutality that afford multiple readings. With a flair for incorporating wry humor into even the most direct confrontations with negative aspects of human endeavor, Messager is able to move and delight people of all generations.

• Charming and fantastical, and at times taking strange and mysterious forms, Messager's art works are "messengers" that talk directly to our souls.

• Louise Bourgeois• Barbara Chase-Riboud

• Sheila Hicks• Claire Zeisler

• Annette Messaget• Eva Hesse

• Lenore Tawney• Jackie Winsor• Lee Bontecou

• Bettye & Alison Saar• Kiki Smith

• Ursula Von Rydingsvard • Magdalena Abakanowicz

• Sarah Lucas• Kendall Buster

• Meret Oppenheim• Petah Coyne

Women Fiber Artists