Deceptively Flat Weavings by Artist Susie Taylor Interlace Threads into Playful and Nostalgic Patterns



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Designs we might ordinarily associate with childhood—the plaid vinyl garden chairs of relatives barbecues, thick pink, brown, and white stripes of Neapolitan ice product, and the simple dominated markings on notebook paper—become lively woven tapestries in the palms of artist Susie Taylor. Nostalgic in aesthetic and vivid in shade palette, the Bay Space artist and textile designer interlaces cotton and linen threads to generate flat weaves that seem virtually a few-dimensional in complexity, with the mathematically-inclined motifs and delicate shifts in color embedded in just the items them selves.

The fiber compositions attract on the traditions of Bauhaus and Black Mountain School through a boldly playful lens and “include standard shapes like blocks and stripes to handle sample, symmetry and shade interaction and the notion that requested methods can nonetheless flirt with opportunity, interruption, and improvisation,” the artist claims.

Taylor’s operates are on view as a result of Oct 27 as part of Origin Stories at Johansson Initiatives in Oakland. Examine extra of her intricate types on her website.

 

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