Artist Talk: Cameron Taylor-Brown

Please join us for artist talk by Cameron Taylor-Brown on Saturday June 16, 2012 at 6pm, and the opening reception of Looming Election: Woven Works at 5pm – 7pm.

Artist Talk
Looming Election: Woven Works Exhibition
Meet the artist Cameron Taylor-Brown
Saturday, June 16, 2012
6pm – 7pm

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Looming Election: Woven Works Exhibition (June 16 – September 1, 2012)
Works by Tanya Aguiñiga, Connie Lippert, Michael F. Rohde, Cameron Taylor-Brown, and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
In light of the imminent 2012 election, Craft in America proudly gathers together politically charged work by five contemporary textile innovators. This is a vast and varied group of exceptionally skilled artists who push the medium of fiber, and the traditional technique of weaving, into new realms. Their work redefines what weaving can be, in terms of method, material and meaning. Visually engulfing, boldly crafted, their messages speak loud and clear, causing us to reconsider the road our nation has paved and where we are heading.

Each of these five artists comes from a different aesthetic standpoint but they are unified by their desire to explore the expressive potential of fiber.
Tanya Aguiñiga, who trained in furniture design, experiments with alternative weaving structures and explores concepts of border identity and ethnicity in her site-specific work.
Connie Lippert is known for tapestries woven in the traditional Navajo wedge weave, here employed to map our world and question where we stand.
Michael Rohde paints poetic, suggestive meditations on modern life in yarn, using strong geometry and vibrant color.
Cameron Taylor-Brown uses the language of woven cloth to, in her words, “shape order out of chaos.”
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood‘soutspoken works in fiber challenging our conceptions of ethnic politics and calling into question social and economic hierarchies that exist in American life.