Whirlwind of Art NYC: Grid/Weave/Tangle

Last week I flew out to NYC for some Art saturation.  Museums, Galleries, the Whitney Biennial, a show, studio visits… it was wonderful.  There will be a post about all that, but I thought I’d share the work that really connected to my current exploration of weave and grid and tangle.

I happened to see Jasper John’s “Regrets” series at MOMA and noticed a lot of fabric and weave in his prints!  It was interesting to me that though I knew him as a painter since high school, I’d never really seen any of his print work (one of those some-media-privileged-over-others things?).  He also directly incorporated cloth and weave into his in 0-9 series on display there. Last week I was just working out how I would incorporate the weave into my first copper plate and here was a famous artist doing just that.  Serendipitously later that day I saw another Jasper Johns piece at Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea related to the 0-9 prints at MOMA which was done as a bronze sculpture … again with the weave.

The following slide show is made up of the work around NYC, old and new that fed  into the shapes and thoughts around grid/weave/tangle that I’ve been exploring.

Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences (1913)

Swifts: Paths of Movement (detail)

wifts: Paths of Movement (detail2)

Jasper Johns “untitled” (from Regrets series)

artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) tule fabric layered to create a portrait. These are around 6 feet square.

artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail2

artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail

artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail of painting/mixed media (tule)work

Jasper Johns (from Regrets series, etching)

Jasper Johns “0-9” monotypes

Jasper Johns “0-9” bronze (detail)

Lu Huasheng “0669” ink on paper (hand drawn grids)

Lu Huasheng “0669” ink on paper (detail)

Leon Ferrari “Reflections” (ink on gessoed wood, copper wire, and ink on glass in artist’s painted frame. (1963)

Leon Ferrari “Reflections” (detail)

Leon Ferrari “?” (ink on paper) detail

Leon Ferrari “?” (ink on paper) detail

Dona Nelson “String Beings” (detail)

Seen at a bus stop

Anonymous antique Japanese Textile (seen at PACE, Chelsea)

Anonymous antique Japanese Textile (seen at PACE, Chelsea)