Nicola Ginzel

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

(Thanks, Becky!)

Orly Cogan & Mary Jo Matsumoto Collab

dress by Mary Jo Matsumoto

Mary Jo Matsumoto is debuting a collection of art-inspired dresses at at The Stephen Cohen Gallery on Thursday, March 17, from 6-9pm during LA Fashion Week. She designed this dress with fabric printed from Orly Cogan's art piece titled "Searching For My Prince". I don't know what other artist-inspired works are included in her collection, but I'm intrigued.

Woven Fishing Nets

Campaign for Shinmura Fisheries by Shinmura Design Office, Japan.

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also see: Fence Embroidery

Full Mano Encore

Full Mano just posted images to Facebook of new work and I wanted to share. He is an artist living and working in Paris.

Previously: Full Mano

Fingers as Feather Stitch

Woven Trash Cans, Nashville TN

I was excited to see these cans elaborately woven with wire during a recent trip to Nashville (found along 12th Ave South). If anyone has information about who did these (and by the weathering, it appears they were done some time ago), please let me know!

ETA: Embroidery friend Lauren (aka giddy99) contacted me today with a link to Mary Lucking's website. This was a community project that she led in 1999 called "Can Do":

As part of Nashville, Tennessee's 12South streetscape redevelopment project in Spring 1999, youth and seniors at Sevier Park Community Center created colorful patterns for four new litter receptacles. Based on African and Native American beading and weaving designs, the patterns are created by weaving colored telephone wire into the perforated metal surfaces of the new red trash cans that were ordered to be installed in the Phase I area (the blocks closest to Sevier Park) of 12South project. The patterns on the cans highlight the interaction between rules and free-form creativity in art. Each pattern has a set of rules, within which the weavers will be encouraged to follow their own visions of color, pattern, and texture.

(Thanks, Lauren!)

Monster Show Five - Domy Books

I will have one, strange little drawing included in the Austin leg of this group show at the wonderful Domy Books:

Monster Show Five
Saturday, October 30
@ Domy Books, Austin / Houston 7-9pm
show hangs until December 2, 2010

Liyen Chong - Hair Embroidery

"Breathe" 2009, Liyen Chong

Melenie in New Zealand sent an email to let me know about the work of Liyen Chong (who is also in New Zealand). Her works in embroidery are exclusively worked with hair. There is a long tradition of embroidering with hair in China and, Chong works with blonde, red and black hair. Having attempted embroidery with my own hair only once, I am astonished at the results she achieves.

Link (thanks, Melenie!)

Peter Crawley

Looking at a collected list of "minimalist websites", Peter Crawley's was at the top. I had not seen his work before. Worked almost exclusively in black thread on paper, the precision and line work that could be mistaken for pen and ink is sweetly betrayed by the soft burs and errant fibers. The architectural studies are my favorite.

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Study Hall Drawings - Review

There is a very nice review of my new work, "Study Hall Drawings" in this week's Austin Chronicle. Put me in a good mood. I had no idea my own nostalgia could inspire so much in others -even transposing it to another decade by the incredibly generous reviewer. Austin, Texas is ground zero for "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused", after all. But I didn't go to high school here. I grew up in a then-very-small (one stoplight) farming town that was stuck in a bit of a time-warp during the 80's, where, just as in the not-too distant 70's, many of the boys still had long, feathered hair just like the girls.

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Lost at Sea at Gallery Hanahou NYC - Group Show

"Bottles 1, 2 and 3" colored pencil and embroidery on bristol by Jenny Hart

Tonight is the opening of "Lost at Sea", an invitational group show at Gallery Hanahou in NYC. I'll have three small works included. This show was planned last year, and now seems especially poignant considering the disastrous situation occurring in the Gulf. From the Gallerly Hanahou website:

32 exciting artists who share underwater visions of items lost, creatures forgotten, and life that struggles to stay with us.

Curated by Kristen Rask of Schmancy and "Plush You," "Lost at Sea" will feature a broad array of amusing and uncanny works in embroidery, plush, and other materials, including new pieces by Hine Mizushima, Jill Bliss, and Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching.

Lost At Sea group show
@ Gallery Hanahou NYC May 6th - June 11th 2010

Study Hall Drawings at Domy Books Austin - Solo Show

Things have been so busy around here that I didn't even have a chance to post about my solo show that opened this past Saturday, May 1st here in Austin. "Study Hall Drawings" are pencil portraits of students from my own high school year books embellished with hand-drawn embroidery "stitches" in colored pencil. There are 15 drawings in all. I have work in two more shows opening this week in NYC and Indianapolis, so be sure to check my exhibitions schedule (I'll post about each show on here).

Study Hall Drawings by Jenny Hart

works can be viewed / purchased here

@ Domy Books, Austin

Exhibition runs May 1st - June 10, 2010

*I will be giving a gallery talk about the work on Wednesday June 9th

Open Source Embroidery Show at MOCFA

html patchwork of 216 patches, each stitched with their RGB color code by numerous collaborators

Curator Ele Carpenter's Open Source Embroidery exhibit is currently on display at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. It closes soon (I'm so behind in my blogging!), and this is a show not to miss. I really, really regret that I missed it while I was in San Francisco for my book tour.

Open Source Embroidery
October 2, 2009—January 24, 2010

Artists: Access Space, Suzanne Brook Martin, Ele Carpenter, Iain Clark, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Emma Ferguson, Flare Productions, Paul Grimmer, Richard Hamilton, Suzanne Hardy, HUMlab Workers, James Hutchinson, Charlene Lam, Kristina Lindström & Åsa Stahl, Sampler Collective, Sophie McDonald & Davide Della Casa, Travis J. Meinolf, Kate Pemberton, Trevor Pitt, Michele Pred, Clare Ruddock, Hamilton, Southern & St Amand, Becky Stern, Haishu Zhang.

From the MOCFA website:

The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery, thread, and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution.

Open Source Embroidery includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.

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Previously on EAA: Open Source Embroidery

Jann Haworth - Exhibit in UK

Jann Haworth is more of a "soft-sculpture" artist than an embroidery artist but let's make sure you know about her current show going on in England:

Hollywood-born artist Jann Haworth (b. 1942) is among the few women associated with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Her sewn cloth soft sculptures refer to typically American Pop themes such as fast food, film stars, cheerleaders, cowboys and comics, as well as to her experiences of living in England during a period of cultural transformation. Developed in partnership with the artist, this exhibition is the first UK solo show of Haworth’s work in a public gallery since 1972.

POP Jann Haworth
@Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, England
26 Oct 09 - 10 Apr 10 2009

Link (thanks, Zoe!)

Domestic Animals -show coming

I was invited by friend and extraordinary painter, Heyd Fontenot, to be part of a group show at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas, called "Domestic Animals" (theme open to interpretation). I'm using this as an opportunity to do some pieces I've had banging around in my head for a while. Here's a sketch. I'll post the finished works closer to the opening, which is November 21st.

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Maurizio Anzeri

Shannon Rankin just sent me an email asking if I had ever seen the work of Maurizio Anzeri. Why, no! I had not. And now, I am so glad that I have.

Link (via I Found Some Treasure)

Céline Cleron

Dressmaker's pincushion with insects by Céline Cleron, part of the show currently on display at Galerie LJ in Paris.

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Melissa Zexter

Melissa's work combines photography with fine hand-sewing directly onto the photo. I'd love to see these works in person.

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Cécile Jarsaillon

Some of my favorite works at the exhibition in Lille were by Cécile Jarsaillon. She is best known for her paintings (and for her involvement in the rock group Les Supremes Dindes). But, her foray into embroidery is really unique: she does open satin stitching over photos which lends an eerie quality where the simplicity of the lines in thread are underscored by the gradations of color from the photo. The link below is to several works taken from a safety manual (click on the thumbnails once there for large details). Warning: several images are graphic.

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Full Mano

At the Sur le Fil exhibition, they had a curtained room dedicated to adult-themed art in needlework. I was particularly interested in the series of embroidered, vinyl 12" records by Full Mano. Alas, I have been unable to find any links to his work online. He lives in Paris and stitches on records, paper and photographs.

ETA: Full Mano sent me a very nice email after I posted this and gave me this link to his myspace page.