(via The Station Spin: Encoded Cloth)

Louise Bourgeois, She Lost It [performance pieces] 1992

(via Kate’s studio)

Art World Truth #7, 2011 by Kate Kretz. Embroidery on overalls.

(via project/ten | art design gallery | debbie smyth)

debbie smyth is textile artist most identifiable by her statement thread drawings. these playful yet sophisticated contemporary artworks are created by stretching a network of threads between accurately plotted pins. her work beautifully blurs the boundaries between fine art drawings + textile art, flat + 3d work, illustration + embroidery.

dirtylibrarianthoughts:

Ghada Amer, Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie, 1995/2000

embroidery on cotton

lithy:

By Helen McDonnell @ Danse Macabre (2010)

I’ve been meaning to post these for a while now as a point of inspiration; these embroidered sculptures were part of a superb four-week project hosted by Catalyst Arts last year and were accompanied by a sound design created by Hornby (of Continuous Battle of Order).

Helen, as you may be able to guess from her drawing style, also works as a sumpremely talented tattoist. Her studio, Skullduggery Tatu, is currently hosting the Sew Risqué exhibition until the end of this month. I’d recommend checking out her altered photo postcards, too.

(via textilenerd)

queerarty:

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, The Lesbian Body, 2006

Laura Kina

Laura Kina Devon Avenue Sampler Artist Statement

Devon Avenue Sampler features street signs and imagery from my Chicago immigrant neighborhood where Orthodox Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Christians all live. This urban South Asian/Jewish corridor is lined with jewelers, ethnic grocery stores, bakeries, spice shops, restaurants, colorful sari shops, travel & tour services, cell phone/electronics/luggage shops, beauty shops advertising eye brow threading and mehndi, and a base ball field.

Using indigo dyed thread on khadi fabric (two materials long associated with Mahatma Gandhi and symbolic of India’s Freedom Movement from British colonization) along with a generous dose of Gujarat style mirrored bling and Jewish inspired tassels, my samplings of Devon Avenue’s poly-cultural street signs have been hand embroidered by artisans from MarketPlace: Handwork of India. MarketPlace is a fair trade women’s collective based in Mumbai. The use of the word the word ”sampler” in the series title Devon Avenue Sampler thus refers to both embroidery samplers and ”sampling” as in cultural appropriation.