Fashion designer and artist Wataru Tominaga, along with a collective of local artists, transforms the Hammer Museum gallery space into a sewing classroom. Collaborating at a round table, Tominaga and these artisans will create a patchwork quilt, highlighting the intricate hand stitching techniques deeply rooted in Japanese culture.

Refashioning presents two project spaces from transdisciplinary artists and fashion designers Concept Foreign Garments New York (CFGNY) and Wataru Tominaga. Featuring garments, accessories, and textile works, the exhibition examines the ways in which these two practices—one based in New York, the other in Tokyo—challenge preconceived notions of gender and identity, and in particular what the artists describe as “vaguely Asian” aesthetics.

Cindy Rinne and Marthe Aponte are featured in “Journey Inside an Empty Circle” at Roswell Space.

The concepts of fullness/emptiness and void/form are explored through textural wall-works. According to the Zen Buddhist concept of Enso or empty circle, you cannot have form without formlessness and vice versa. Aponte and Rinne layer and combine materials using picote and fiber art.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, featuring Cuban American artist Amalia Galdona Broche and Oakland artist Demetri Broxton. The exhibition highlights African retentions and transculturation at play in the artists’ novel, sculptural approaches to contemporary art, and culture. Both artists are immersed in conceptual material practices, using textile, beads, paint, and sculpted form to interrogate ongoing legacies of conquest, slavery, immigration, and erasure.

This exhibition features a new series of work by Micah Clasper-Torch of one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces, exploring the intersection of construction, form, and color. Building on her previous experience with punch needle, Clasper-Torch has pushed her patternmaking skills to new heights by presenting this textile in innovative ways that have never been seen before.

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present “Black & White.”
Works included in Black & White explore the possibilities created by strict aesthetic guidelines. Beverly Semmes’ seminal work ‘Buried Treasure’ (1994) will be presented in the first gallery space, while the second space contains a selection of ‘white’ works.

Small Expressions is an annual juried exhibition showcasing contemporary, small-scale fiber work in a range of media. Featured work speaks to the intricacy of expression, intimacy of design, thoughtful communication and visual excitement through material exploration. This touring exhibition’s purpose is to increase awareness of contemporary fiber art and uplift its perceived value while providing opportunities for working artists.

Julie Easton collects discarded every day objects, meticulously transforming them into a fusion of unexpected beauty, provoking thought around issues of waste, consumption, and different ways of seeing.

Experience the conversation of Susan Maddux's newest large-scale folded pieces,  along with  paintings by Saxon JJ Quinn and raku ceramic works by Shino Takeda in a beautiful installation at Rhett Baruch Gallery. 

Art Share L.A. proudly presents A Common Thread, an exhibition featuring fiber-based and textile works of art exploring autobiography and social critique, connection and displacement. The artworks in this exhibition are interlinked through themes of history and memory.

The Work of Radiance is a retrospective of the groundbreaking 30-year career of Myrlande Constant.

The presentation and its accompanying publication trace the evolution of Constant’s artistic vision, innovative techniques, and impact on art-making in Haiti and beyond; and situate her hand-beaded textiles within contemporary arts of Haiti and the African diaspora.

Chiharu Shiota creates meticulously webbed environments that span the length of entire galleries and mimic organic forms such as cobwebs, veins, and fractals.

Shiota will be the inaugural artist featured in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby and will envelop the area with a unique and visceral installation.

For Laub, care is at the center of the provocation, “Let me touch you.” The works in the exhibition—ceramics, quilts and embroidered textiles, and glass sculpture—all carry the trace of the hand and the labor of the handmade. Made while Laub studied anatomy to become a massage therapist, the works both contain and extend the curriculum of the body.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present A CHORUS OF TWISTED THREADS with artists Sarah Amos, John Paul Morabito, Ramekon O’Arwisters and Michael Sylvan Robinson. The intention and language of their work differ, but all are forging new boundaries with fiber. Morabito, Robinson and O’Arwisters’ work unfolds metaphoric dramas of gay, secular and devotional life, while Amos delves into large scale collagraphs as the foundation for complex fiber constructions.

Spectral Analysis is a three-person exhibition curated by Jason Jenn, featuring vivid assemblages and sculptures by Kate Carvellas, Dellis Frank, and Jynx Prado - three artists who each employ bold and delightful approaches to color using varied materials.

Sympoeisis: making with
exploring the material culture of the Southern California Fibershed

USC Fisher Museum of Art is proud to announce Mulyana: Modular Utopia, the Indonesian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition is an introduction to Mulyana’s large kinetic environments composed of intricately constructed, knit modules of marine life sculptures that vividly portray an unadulterated underwater world.

United by themes of human desire and longing, this group of thirteen artists have chosen to work with embroidery either as a singular medium or as a part of a multimedia art practice. The assembled artists have embraced needle and embroidery floss to connect with and integrate their non-Western cultural heritages, their queer identities, and their fantasies.

CONNECTIVE THREADS, Fiber Art from Southern California
Curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria

Discover the extraordinary stories behind three hundred years of American quilts. Fabric of a Nation illuminates the unique capacity quilts have to tell stories and convey a sense of humanity.

Join us for the Artists’ Reception for Tricksters & Transformation! Sunday evening, Sept 26th from 4-7 pm. Show dates extended to October 10th.

Gallery exhibition featuring textile artists Cindy Rinne, Madeline Arnault, Melanie Ciccone, Misty Joseph, and Nicholette Kominos. Opening reception September 12 from 3 - 6 pm.

For over a decade, Sanchez Art Center has been delighted to present a very large show of very small works, the 50|50 Show. For 50 days, participating artists create 50 small artworks.