Mariska Karasz

Mariska Karasz

Peter Nencini

Tyrella Chair

Source Photos - Sad Girls

I like to sneak photos of pensive or sad girls for source images
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I have to be very sneaky about it:

Workshop at Fowler Museum UCLA

photo : Kenneth B. Gall

The Fowler Museum of Art at UCLA has invited me to teach an embroidery workshop in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition: Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women. Please come not just to learn embroidery, but to learn about the incredible work of this Italian conceptual artist and his collaboration with Afghan needleworkers.

Visit Needlework Revolution: Embroidery Workshop with Jenny Hart for full details and to sign up (seats are limited to twenty).

Allover Needlepoint

Fawn by Frédérique Morrel

Wonderful. Animals with salvaged needlepoint hides by Frédérique Morrel. Some of her work is currently on display in the windows at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC.

Also making creative re-use of the abundance of needlepoint is Lindsten Form Studio:

Embroidery Chairs by Lindsten Form Studio

If you're wondering: Is this embroidery, needlepoint or tapestry? I explain here.

Veine Magazine - France

My work and an accompanying interview are in the current issue of Veine Magazine (France). This is an online magazine that also features work by Iris Van Herpen, Kimiko Yoshida, Bartholot and Kate MccGuire. Interviews are in French and English. (I didn't realize my interview in French was going to be translated back into English, which made for an interesting read.)

Also, this micro interview for X/I - Ten Words One Shot (Germany).

Giant Embroidery Diagram 1 - Feather Stitch

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Working on oversized embroidery diagrams. This is a feather stitch.

Eric Beltz - Recrafting History (Group Show)

Sampler in graphite by Eric Beltz. Wonderful. Eric's bio says he teaches the "lost art of drawing" at UCSB and his most recent work recreates the look of a cross-stitched samplers. I really like that he's not drawing the stitches themselves but pixel-like boxes of varying shades.

This work is part of an upcoming group show:

Recrafting History
history, nostalgia & craft in the
American Memory
curated by Ellen Caldwell

Eric Beltz – Jen Pack – Karen Spector
Frohawk Two Feathers – Stephanie Washburn

October 29 - December 22, 2011
@ Taylor de Cordoba

(Thank you Ellen, for the invite to this show!)

Livefeed of Smithsonian Talk

Here's a link to the livestream video of my keynote talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for Hello Etsy on September 18th. The opening keynote earlier that day was given by Dr. John Maeda, artist and President of RISD. His talk was fascinating.

Full Mano

Fellow embroiderer and French artist Full Mano has a show opening tonight at the Krash Bar in Paris. Of course -just a week after I left. Bien que ce soit un cruise bar, j'y aurais allée bien volontiers! Bon vernissage et bisous!

Full Mano on Facebook

Previously on EAA:
Full Mano - Sur le Fil
Full Mano - Encore

Hong Chun Zhang

"Twin Spirits"#1 (2002)
4ft x 10ft (each)
charcoal on paper

This past weekend, I spoke at Hello Etsy's satellite event in Washington D.C. at The Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery.

When I had a moment to slip away, I walked through the permanent collection and also checked out the current exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter. I was absolutely blown away by the monumental work of Hong Chung Zhang.

Vanités Sacrées

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My first solo show in Paris, Vanités Sacrées, opened at Galerie LJ on September 1st along with a concurrently running solo show by Korean artist, Eun-Mi Oh.

(photo via Art In The Box)
Her prints (which were all series of one) were my favorites.

I only managed to click off a few photos before the evening turned into a blur. My favorite part was having an elderly couple from Spain corner me for an impassioned discussion about Mormon hairstyles:

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About the work (from the gallery’s website):

"Show me how you wear your hair, and I will tell you to whom you pray."

Twenty graphite and colored pencil drawings by Jenny Hart. These works depict “subjects that cover their heads or fashion their hair for religious reasons. Specifically not when only done as decoration for special religious ceremonies, but when worn as part of daily life and every day dress.” Braids, wigs, veils, chador, sheitel, curled sideburns and a non-exhaustive variety of religious stylings reflect a curiosity by the artist for the subject, without criticism or judgement. Fascinated by the different techniques of embroidery, the other principal medium of Hart’s work, she says she loves to draw embroidery stitches and is equally fascinated with their execution as they parallel the knotting, weaving and embellishment that hair can also take on.

All drawings can be seen online here. Contact Adeline Jeudy info@galerielj.com for more information. Remaining works will go on to the Drawing Now salon at the Louvre in spring 2012.

Vanités Sacrées (solo show)
@ Galerie LJ, Paris, France
opens: Sept 1 until *Oct 18 2011
*the exhibition will be closed Sept 27 - Oct 10
for private functions during Paris fashion week

Paris Show - Drawing Preview

details - click for larger view

This past month, blogging on Embroidery As Art took a back seat while I finalized the move of Sublime Stitching (and the setup of my studio) to Los Angeles. Things are settling in and I'm glad to get back to creative work. Here's a preview from the twenty drawings I've been working on for over a year.

This series of drawings are for a solo show at Galerie LJ in Paris that opens September 1. (Once the show opens, all drawings will be viewable online and I'll disclose the theme and subject then.) For now, just a preview while I enjoy a brief break between major projects.

Nicola Ginzel

Found objects, trash, ephemera, discarded receipts, cardboard boxes...embroidered, embellished and made precious by Nicola Ginzel.

(Thanks, Becky!)

Works STOLEN From Toronto Exhibition

STOLEN WORK

STOLEN WORK

Two of my most recent works (St. John the Baptist and Lou Reed as Christ) were stolen from The Drake Hotel in Toronto following the close of the exhibition Wrap Your Head Around This. Attempts to retrieve the works have been fruitless, so I am now posting about it. Please share this blog post to spread awareness that if these works surface, they were stolen.

The return of these works will be welcomed with no questions asked.
Email: jenny [ at ] jennyhart.net