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Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art
Oct
6
to Apr 27

Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art

  • Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (map)
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Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is pleased to present Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal:Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Wendy Cabrera Rubio and Mauricio Guillén with Clemente Castor and Antonio Ponce, Tania Candiani, Dario Canul (Tlacolulokos), Porfirio Gutiérrez, Edgar Jahir Trujillo, Candice Lin, Andy Medina, Jou Morales, Rufina Nava Flores, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, and Dyani White Hawk.

The conversations and the artworks presented here center the aesthetics, history, and global impact of the Zapotec peoples’ cultivation of cochineal—a scale insect that lives exclusively on the nopal cactus (Opuntia cacti) and is the source of a red dye derived from its body. The beauty of cochineal hue has captivated people for centuries, not only in Mexico, but around the world.

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Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
Oct
17
to Aug 31

Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion

Explore the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This North American debut exhibition—coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Diane von Furstenberg’s iconic wrap dress—includes a selection of over sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives along with ephemera, fabric swatches, media pieces, and information on her philanthropic work. 

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Black in Place
Jan
25
to Mar 29

Black in Place

Black in Place holds space for invocation, re-memory, and unbridled Black expression. Countering erasure, it interrogates the living contradictions of existing while Black, invoking ancestral and indigenous wisdom to explore how Black artists cultivate dreaming through making.

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9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers
Jan
25
to Apr 12

9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce 9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts and Containers, a showcase of artworks by 18 distinguished artists from California’s established fiber art community.
Presenting innovative interpretations of traditional craft forms, these dynamic quilted, woven, plaited, and twined works investigate the purposes and potential of cross-cultural narratives and techniques through diverse media, expanding our understanding of visual culture.

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 Ahree Lee: Home Maker Space
Feb
1
to May 4

Ahree Lee: Home Maker Space

Home Maker Space is an immersive exploration of the most recent work by Korean American artist Ahree Lee. TEXTILE 1.0 combines weaving, video, and electronic textiles to imagine the kind of technology we might have in our homes if technology had evolved differently in the 20th century.

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Ramekon O’Arwisters: HOUSE OF
Feb
1
to May 4

Ramekon O’Arwisters: HOUSE OF

Rooted in the exploration of traditional textile and craft practices, the work of multimedia artist Ramekon O’Arwisters reflects his lived experiences as a Black and Queer man in the United States.
O’Arwisters anchors his complex sculpture and socially engaged work in material and object politics, drawing from cultural, familial, and personal histories. Through combinations of found objects and craft techniques—many associated with domestic spaces, O’Arwisters investigates topics of intimacy, gender, race, and queer identity.

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Amanda Maciel Antunes: I’ve Got To Tell You Something Now
Feb
1
to May 4

Amanda Maciel Antunes: I’ve Got To Tell You Something Now

Amanda Maciel AntunesI’ve Got To Tell You Something Now, which consists of a film, an object, and an artist book, functions as a portrait of an action of resistance, and an appeal to the intention of memory and stillness.
The artist spent 365 days walking up and down a mountain with a piece of cloth, an audio recorder, a cell phone, a GoPro, sewing thread, and a needle. The journey began on the first day of the Covid-19 mandated lockdown in Los Angeles.
Resembling the daily journey, the 90-foot scroll of fabric will be displayed in the window lobby area of the museum and fabric will be suspended in several parts of the lobby forming waves resembling the hills of the mountains culminating in an area where a monitor will display the filmed journey.

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Tribal Weave Project
Feb
15
to Mar 29

Tribal Weave Project

Hostler Burrows is pleased to announce an exhibition of hand-woven textiles by Taher Asad-Bakhtiari, whose Tribal Weave Project offers a contemporary distillation of the kilim flatweaves and densely-knotted gabbeh rugs that have long defined Iran’s cultural traditions. 

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Memesis
Mar
1
to Mar 29

Memesis

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Memesis, a solo exhibition of woven works by Los Angeles-based artist Kayla Mattes, who brings a modern sensibility and wit to the traditional art of weaving. Her handwoven tapestries investigate digital forms of expression, drawing from internet memes, symbols, and texts to convey the pervasive anxieties of contemporary life

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Step & Repeat
Mar
6
to May 18

Step & Repeat

  • Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (map)
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The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ (DCA) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) proudly presents Step & Repeat, a group exhibition curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston

Inspired by the historical Pattern and Decoration movement of the mid-1970s and its impact across our region, Step & Repeat highlights 46 Southern California artists who engage with themes of pattern and decoration.

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Pilar Agüero-Esparza: Darker than the deepest sea… weaker than the palest blue
Mar
15
to Apr 19

Pilar Agüero-Esparza: Darker than the deepest sea… weaker than the palest blue

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present Pilar Agüero-Esparza in her first one-person exhibition with the gallery.
Pilar is recognized for her installations, paintings, and objects reflecting the palette and politics of skin tone, specifically Brown and Black skin. Her paintings are a hybrid of formal, hard-edged geometric abstraction, accentuated by her coded color palette, intersecting with her family’s tradition of huarache-making

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Uma Rani Iyli: Connective Threads
Mar
15
to Apr 19

Uma Rani Iyli: Connective Threads

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Connective Threads, the spun thread ‘paintings’ of Uma Rani Iyli. Having grown up in India’s traditional caste-based society, Iyli identifies as belonging to the female Indian weaver’s community. She references weaving, stitching and pattern making in her art using remnant thread sourced directly from weaver communities collected during her annual trips to Southern India. Through her use of silk threads and plexiglas tubes, she spins vibrant colors inspired by traditional saris.

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Hands Head and Heart
Mar
20
to Jun 8

Hands Head and Heart

The Ojai Valley Museum presents a collective vision from 15 artists, both emerging and established, whose fiber work is inspired by the Ojai Valley.  In their hands, fiber becomes a language of resilience, play, sustainability, and healing.

Baskets, nets and quilts once purely functional, now emerge as intricate narratives of human experience. Each piece is a conversation rooted in the landscape of Ojai...it's ecology, its challenges, its enduring spirit woven into tangible form. From the natural world to the rubbish bin, artists gather and transform material adding to the meaning.

Fiber processes require a slow mediative rhythm to make, creating a visual battery of time as each stitch or knot accumulates. These skills are centuries old, practiced by cultures around the world. These same rhythms bind us to our ancestors, to each other and to the earth. Hands that create, heads that imagine, hearts that feel...this is the essence of our unique community.

Exhibition curated by Carol Shaw-Sutton.

Artists:
Annette Heully
Carol Shaw-Sutton
Carrie Burckle
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach
Eliot Spaulding
Jmy James Kidd
Michael Rohde
Minga Opazo
Molly Haynes
Julie Easton
Pat Edwards
Rosemary Hall
Ruth Katzenstein Souza
Sally England
Wendy Osher

Opening Reception:
Friday, March 21st from 5-7 pm (free)

Admission:
Suggested Donation $5 adults, $1 children 6-18

Hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm
Third Fridays, 10am - 7pm

More information0 am - 7 pm

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Fashioning an Icon
Apr
5
to Sep 7

Fashioning an Icon

Inspired by her long history of depiction on textiles, these works explore the Virgin of Guadalupe’s endurance as an iconic cultural symbol fashioned through creative expression.

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Women Work Together
Mar
1
to Mar 28

Women Work Together

Shoebox Projects proudly presents Women Work Together, a  Women’s History Month exhibit by the San Diego-based Feminist Image Group (FIG). This transformative exhibition explores creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing thought-provoking works that address critical issues impacting women in today’s world.

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Duets
Mar
1
to Mar 28

Duets

DUETS invited Los Angeles Art Association artists to collaborate with randomly selected partners, combining their unique talents and perspectives to create innovative, all-media artworks.

In an era marked by division, DUETS celebrates creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing the transformative power of teamwork. Each pair’s artistic synergy symbolizes the broader social necessity of cooperation and dialogue, fostering empathy and collective progress.

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John Paul Morabito: Take Me To Heaven
Jan
18
to Feb 21

John Paul Morabito: Take Me To Heaven

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is thrilled to present the dazzling woven, beaded tapestries of John Paul Morabito in their first one-person exhibition with the gallery.

“This is a retracing of the queer resistance born in urban discos of a prior generation. As social and political forces once again seek to eradicate queer people, I, like those who came before me, reach for the promise of queer futurity.”

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Ferne Jacobs: A Poetry of Thread
Jan
18
to Feb 21

Ferne Jacobs: A Poetry of Thread

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited and honored to feature Los Angeles-based artist Ferne Jacobs in her First Los Angeles gallery exhibition!

At 82 years old, Ferne Jacobs is a ground-breaking pioneer in the International Fiber Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She continues her daily studio practice today, intuitively coiling and twining compelling abstract forms that infer historical provenance beyond their making.

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Sometimes A Wind Blows
Dec
6
to Jan 10

Sometimes A Wind Blows

Wonzimer is proud to present Sometimes A Wind Blows, a group exhibition exploring the diverse possibilities of textile art.

Each artist showcases a wide range of techniques and media, from embroidery, weaving, painting, printing, and knitting to experimental manipulations of linen, velvet, or silk. Bringing together legacy artists with new generations of artists, this show explores the enduring appeal of textile art, as both tangibly luxurious and mysterious.

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Material World
Nov
9
to Dec 7

Material World

Freehand Gallery is featuring new work from: Jim Bassler, Kay Chapman, Deborah Cross, Jill Heir, Marie Kare, Victoria May, Brian Murphy, Sally Prangley, Rat Boi, Michael Rohde, Iris Schneider, Stephen Sidelinger, Joy Stocksdale, Nicki Voss, Debby Weiss, Sarah Winston.

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Jeremy Frey: Unbound
Nov
9
to Dec 21

Jeremy Frey: Unbound

Karma presents Unbound, Jeremy Frey’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Jeremy Frey is the foremost contemporary practitioner of Wabanaki basketry, a tradition that dates back more than 13,000 years and is the oldest continuously practiced art form in the area now known as Maine.

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Measure Twice Cut Once
Nov
8
to Dec 1

Measure Twice Cut Once

Over 50 artists fill the walls and floors of the gallery with fun and unusual works. Our curation aimed to stretch the public’s understanding of collage as something beyond busy compositions that look like conspiracy boards that are only missing red string. The artists exhibiting approach collage with the same finesse and intention all pop surrealists do.

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Over Under Over: Work from California Fibers
Nov
5
to Mar 5

Over Under Over: Work from California Fibers

Over Under Over features the work of twenty-two members of California Fibers, including: Sandy Abrams, Charlotte Bird, Ashley V. Blalock, Carrie Burckle, Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee, Doshi, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Susan Henry, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Annette Heully, Brittany Kiertzner, Brecia Kralovic-Logan, Kathy Nida, Carol Nilsen, Liz Oliver, Marty Ornish, Michael F. Rohde, Rebecca Smith, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Elise Vazelakis, Debby Weiss and Peggy Wiedemann.    

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KEYSTONE OPEN STUDIOS
Nov
2

KEYSTONE OPEN STUDIOS

Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist.

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Whiplash: Art in the Ever-Changing Now
Oct
26
to Jan 11

Whiplash: Art in the Ever-Changing Now

Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Art at the Airport, is proud to announce the opening of WHIPLASH: Art In The Ever-Changing Now, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the profound and dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Curated by Rebecca Youssef, Alexandra Dillon, and April Banks, this exhibition offers a reflective exploration of our times, showcasing the ways contemporary artists interpret and respond to the rapid transformations that affect societal norms, cultural identities, environmental crises, and political divisions.

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Intimate Wilderness: Charlotte Bird
Oct
19
to Dec 28

Intimate Wilderness: Charlotte Bird

Visions Museum of Textile Art presents Intimate Wilderness, work by Charlotte Bird.

Charlotte Bird has been a full-time studio artist for over thirty years. Her lifelong love affair with textiles has produced contemporary wall quilts, three dimensional sculptures, and artist’s books. She dyes and prints most of her own fabrics.

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SCIART25  25th Anniversary Exhibition
Oct
5
to Dec 14

SCIART25 25th Anniversary Exhibition

  • Studio Channel Islands Art Center (map)
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SCIART25 explores the rich creative community which has enabled Studio Channel Islands to flourish over the last quarter century. The exhibition is a celebration of a selection of the internationally renowned artists whose work has been presented at Studio Channel Islands and a reflection upon the role that artists have played in shaping the organization over the past twenty-five years.

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Lea Feinstein: chrysalis
Sep
28
to Oct 7

Lea Feinstein: chrysalis

TALA member Lea Feinstein pushes the sculptural potential of Tyvek --cutting, sewing, pleating, and weaving new and recycled works.
She transforms them into vibrant new forms.

The exhibition is curated by Lorraine Heitzman.

Opening reception:
Saturday, September 28, 5-9 pm
During the reception at 6pm, a live performance will feature twenty enthusiastic models walking the runway in unique sculptural garments.

Gallery Hours:
Daily, Noon - 5pm

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Ann Weber: Let the Sunshine In
Sep
14
to Nov 16

Ann Weber: Let the Sunshine In

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce Ann Weber: Let the Sunshine In, a solo exhibition of monumental, sensuous, and anthropomorphic sculpture – made from discarded cardboard boxes. On view will be works from the last 15 years, including new standing and wall sculptures making enthusiastic color choices.

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Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes
Sep
14
to Oct 19

Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes

Patricia Sweetow Gallery is thrilled to present Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes.
“My new body of work centers upon ancestors whose names and stories I don’t fully know. Most of them are soldiers who served in WWI. They fought to support a country that would continue to deny them full citizenship and equal rights.” -– Demetri Broxton

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SHARON BARNES: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being
Sep
14
to Oct 19

SHARON BARNES: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being

Patricia Sweetow Gallery is thrilled to present Sharon Barnes: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being.

With roots in the music industry as a songwriter, Sharon Barnes lyrical, non-objective paintings hold in their making and materials social and political stories of ancestral remembrance and fierce self-determination.

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signifying the impossible song
Sep
13
to Nov 14

signifying the impossible song

signifying the impossible song explores the material culture of objects and the protected knowledges they hold. Encompassing mixed-media artworks, found objects, assemblage, photography, sculpture and painting, the exhibition points to the collective unravelling and structural failings of political systems. There are multiple forces in effect – integration and disintegration, defiance and displacement – the cyclical rhythm suggesting the human project as an ongoing process of fabrication and refabrication.

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CHANNING HANSEN: Cosmic Fabric
Sep
7
to Oct 19

CHANNING HANSEN: Cosmic Fabric

Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Cosmic Fabric, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Channing Hansen.  

Hansen’s artistic process is fundamentally based on his materials, as he immerses himself in the complex journey of how raw fleece becomes knitted yarn.

Hansen derives his knitted patterns from complex digital algorithms which draw on systems and phenomena found in nature and the cosmos. These algorithms allow Hansen to achieve “purposeful randomness,” as the computer generates and determines pattern, color, and dimension. 

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