WARP & WOOF
2014-05-05Warp & Woof, is curated by Toby Clarke and Kathy Grayson. Taking it’s title from the weaving terms “warp” (the vertical and static component of the weave) and “woof” (the dynamic and horizontal aspect of the weave), this exhibition looks at textile-driven abstraction across continents in emerging art.
Weaving is included in the show both literally (with woven works like the above piece by Gabriel Pionkowski where each thread of the canvas is de-threaded, painted, then rewoven over a pine wood frame) and metaphorically, as “warp and woof” can be interpreted as the underlying structure of any process or system. The artists in exhibition unravel the trite cliché of the “fabric” of life by taking a temporal and indeed systemically structured approach to abstraction favoring personal history, traces, residues and chance.
Featured artists Alek O., Ayan Farah, Evan Robarts, Gabriel Pionkowski, Graham Wilson, Hank Willis Thomas, Henry Krokatsis, Johnny Abrahams, Kadar Brock, Moffat Takadiwa, Nika Neelova, Penny Lamb, Shinique Smith and Tonico Lemos Auad.
Exhibition runs through to June 20th, 2014
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
