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| Title: | Currents 38: Christy Matson | | Date: | 2/25/2022 - 7/17/2022 | | Address: | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202, | | Location: | Milwaukee, WI | | Hours: | Thursday: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. / Friday - Sunday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | | Cost/Cover: | Free - $22 | | Web Page: | https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/christy-matson.php | | Contact Info: | 414-224-3200 |
| Details: | The woven pictures featured in Currents 38 resemble contemporary paintings, yet they are deeply rooted in weaving traditions. Using a digital jacquard loom, the Los Angeles–based artist Christy Matson (b. 1979) pairs new ideas and technologies with her knowledge of the centuries-old craft to create thoughtful, innovative compositions. Though she works with textiles, Matson thinks of herself as a painter. Her woven pictures participate in minimalism, abstraction, and decoration and, hung on a wall, are not utilitarian. She employs historic weaving structures and techniques to explore memory; the gendered history of textile production, long considered a feminized form of labor; and issues around sustainability. Matson’s work honors the traditional medium and reflects the strong, recent embrace of fiber by contemporary artists.
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| Event is: | Every Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | | Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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