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Lesley Kice Nishigawara
Kayla Mattes
Mia Weiner
Lesley Kice Nishigawara – Bio
Lesley Kice Nishigawara works predominately in textiles with a focus on systems of order and the grid as a fundamental structure. Her work takes form in complex multiple layered weaving, pushing the capabilities of the loom. She explores the relationship of regulation and perfection with natural slippages to highlight the shifting patterns in our daily lives that reflects the complex beauty in the world around us. Small scale experimental drawings are also part of her practice, allowing for exploration through off loom weaving, pieces, punching and sewing paper collages.
Kice Nishigawara’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions and galleries including Stroll Garden, (Los Angeles, California) China Nation Silk Museum, (Hangzhou, China); Cheongju-si, Sanding-gu (Republic of Korea); Tama Art University Museum (Tama, Japan); EspaceRoi Baudouin au Sein du Palais des Académies, (Brussels, Belgium); and Felissimo Design House (New York, NY). Her work has been featured in several publications including Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now and Fiber Arts Design Book 7. She holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from California State University-Long Beach. Lesley Kice Nishigawara lives and works in Southern California.
Mia Weiner - Bio
Responding to the historical textile, Mia Weiner creates intimate declarations that explore identity, gender, and the psychology of human relationships. She hand-weaves each tapestry in her Los Angeles studio.
Mia received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2020) and her BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. She was awarded the V&A Parasol Prize by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Parasol Foundation in 2024. Her work has been exhibited internationally including in New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and Rome. Weiner is a Yaddo Fellow and her work is in the permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands.
Kayla Mattes - Bio
Kayla Mattes archives the ephemerality of digital culture through the interconnected threads of tapestry weaving. Her handwoven tapestries embrace the narrative and technological history embedded in the act of materializing thread into the woven grid. Driven by meme-culture, current events, and the chaos of our digital lives, her work weaves together narratives that simultaneously act as jokes and social commentary.
Mattes received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from University of California Santa Barbara in 2019. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, (Los Angeles), Eli & Edythe Broad Museum (Michigan), Asia Art Center (Taipei and Beijing), Richard Heller Gallery (Los Angeles), and California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, CA). Recent group exhibitions include Benton Museum of Art (Pomona, CA), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Portland, OR), and Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA). Mattes’ work can be found in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Eli & Edythe Broad Museum, and The Bunker Artspace. She is one of twenty weavers included in the 2018 book, Weaving: Contemporary Makers on the Loom. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA , and teaches weaving in the Fibers department at California State University, Long Beach.
Kayla Mattes
Wonzimer Gallery is located at 341-B S Avenue 17
Los Ángeles, CA 90031
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