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.

Highway Hypnosis, at Craft Contemporary, presents the work of Adrian Alfaro, Aaron Douglas Estrada, Alfredo D. Diaz, Alexa Ramírez Posada, Oscar Magallanes, and Rubén Ortiz-Torres– all members of the Los Angeles-based 3B Collective. This exhibition will feature a vast range of multi-media works including murals, assemblages, textiles, ceramics, printmaking, mask installations, and more.

The five sculptors featured in this exhibition engage in the act of foraging as a means of connecting with their surroundings. Whether it involves rummaging through a trash can, exploring a hardware store, visiting a craft shop, or simply observing the side of the road, these artists perceive the potential for artistic expression in unexpected places. The artists in the exhibition cut, sew, paint, glue and wrap in order to explore a material’s possibilities.

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century. With over 150 works by an international and transhistorical roster of artists, this exhibition at LACMA reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design, and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political forces, as they, in turn, were impacted by modernist art forms.

Bahia Reverb: Artists and Place at Art + Practice presents the work of ten artists who are former fellows at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil—all from North America and of African descent. The exhibition reflects on how Bahia, an epicenter of the African diaspora that is located in northeast Brazil, has fueled their work and changed their understanding of themselves. Bahia was the first point of entry of enslaved Africans into the Americas and remains the center of Afro-Brazilian culture to this day.

Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present, "The Cloud," a solo exhibition of new woven, wall-mounted works by Los Angeles-based artist Christy Matson.
Christy Matson's woven wall-mounted works combine the skill, sensitivity and craft of painting and hand weaving with the artist-directed process of an industrial Jacquard loom. The result is an art object of beauty and depth that reveals important details with regard to art objects, how we make and look at them

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.