Glenn Adamson

Flow States: Rhythm and Rhyme in Textile Art

“I sometimes think of my work as breath,” the great fibre artist Lenore Tawney once said. “Breath is life. Breath moves. It is inspiration and aspiration. In and out.” In this online presentation, writer and curator Glenn Adamson will take his lead from this insight, offering an instinctively arranged history of a half-century of textile art oriented to the theme of rhythm. He will outline correspondences to music, poetry, and dance, looking at artists including Sheila Hicks, Françoise Grossen, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Toshiko Takaezu, Nina Yankowitz, Diedrick Brackens and Indira Allegra.

*This event is free for students/low-waged/unwaged.