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"During New York’s spring fair and auction season this past May, when Phillips
was selling a $46 million Basquiat canvas and Hauser & Wirth was moving
$850,000 Ed Clark paintings at Frieze, another contestant for art lovers’
attention was a sprawling exhibition of works in mediums that come at a lower
price point but are riding an ongoing wave of market and critical attention.
Organized by New York dealers John Post Lee and Karin Bravin of BravinLee
Programs, “The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition” commanded an entire
landmarked 1797 building in the historic South Street Seaport neighborhood.
Among its 61 artists were canonical figures like Louise Bourgeois; artists
known for working in fiber, like Elaine Reichek; and some less associated with
it, like Wangechi Mutu and Jonas Wood.
“The art world really turned up,” said Lee. “We had a cross section of artists,
critics, and collectors.” BravinLee Programs has long shown a commitment to
fiber art, with a decade-long project commissioning artists to create rugs; the
latest is by Willie Cole, and Rashid Johnson is on tap for the next.
BravinLee’s exhibition is just one example of a remarkable wave of museum,
gallery, and art fair presentations of textile works over the last decade or
so. Artnet’s own Katya Kazakina noted the phenomenon two years ago. Painting
has long dominated the art market, but Lee predicts that can’t last forever.
“There isn’t a lot of juice left in the lemon,” he says, while Bravin observes
of textile arts, “I think there’s still a huge sense of discovery in the
medium.”"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
