| ON DISPLAY
The Fall 2016 Duke House Exhibition
Intertwined
Julia Bland, Channing Hansen, Josh Faught, Sergej Jensen
October 11, 2016 – February 19, 2017
Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday, 12:00–7:00 p.m.
This exhibition brings together four fabric-based works that are inspired by, but move beyond, the strictures of painting. Each artist evokes a different fiber tradition: Sergej Jensen combines knit wool and luminous painted canvas in a composition using modernist vocabulary; Julia Bland’s stretcher-less graphic weave, hung to flutter, recalls a fringed rug or standard; Josh Faught re-presents text found in his culling of archives related to gay history in an extravagant yet elegiac piecing of hemp, linen, and lamé; and in Channing Hansen’s playful work wool is caught in a relapse toward its more familiar form as clothing. From traditional canvas to wool, hemp, linen, and lamé, the fabrics that historically supported art and craft are, for these artists, generative fine-art materials themselves. Organized by Kristen Gaylord with Rachel Vorsanger.
Public Programming
February 1, 2017, 6pm
Opening Event, and Panel Discussion
Speakers
Josh Blackwell, Fiber artist; Professor, Bennington College
Bio: Originally from New Orleans, Josh Blackwell is an artist and teacher based in New York City and Bennington, Vermont. He has exhibited his work in the US and internationally since 1999. In 2014 he received a Pollock-Krasner Grant. He has also received fellowships from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, ZKU Berlin, Santa Fe Art Institute, the Delfina Studio Trust in London, and the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs NY. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Bennington College, where he has been a visiting faculty member since 2009 and joined the full time faculty in 2016. His exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, “Neveruses Report Progress” is the inaugural installation of the Education Department’s MAD Process Lab, a new series exploring an individual artist’s practice—from inspiration to exhibition—in great depth. It is on view until February 19, 2017. He has been represented by Kate Macgarry, London since 2004. His website is www.joshblackwell.com
Julia Bland, artist
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Susan Brown, Associate Curator of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Bio: Susan Brown joined Cooper Hewitt in 2001, where she is Associate Curator of Textiles. She curated the highly successful exhibition Fashioning Felt, and edited the accompanying catalogue. She has co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance, Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, Quicktakes: Rodarte, and David Adjaye Selects, and contributed essays to these publications along with Design Life Now: National Design Triennial and Making Design, the museum’s collections handbook. She recently published an essay in Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, published by Vitra Design Museum. She has published articles in Hali, Surface Design, American Craft, TextilForum, and Modern Carpet and Textile. She also teaches in the Masters’ Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies offered by Cooper Hewitt with Parsons/The New School for Design, as well as lecturing regularly for the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
Samantha De Tillio, Assistant Curator, Museum of Arts and Design
Bio: Samantha De Tillio is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. She is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), where she specializes in post-war and contemporary craft. Some of her current research interests include performance in glass, and the intersection of craft and ecology. Her current exhibition Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS is on view through January 22, 2017, and her upcoming exhibition Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story opens April 4, 2017. She is also curating the exhibition Aaron Pexa: The Spoils of Annwn, which opens at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn on May 24, 2017. De Tillio has a Master of Arts in the History of Decorative Arts from the Smithsonian Associates with George Mason University, Washington, DC, a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University at Albany. She has guest lectured at the Bard Graduate Center and is a regular contributor to GLASS: The UrbanGlass Quarterly.
Artist bios
Julia Bland’s works incorporate painting and weaving, developing the structures and patterns that bind disparate elements into a whole. Through weaving, cutting, sewing, dyeing, and painting, the surface becomes a visible record of her evolving, multi-faceted process. Bland earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and her MFA from Yale in 2012. She was awarded The Sharpe-Walentas Space Program in 2015, The Milton and Sally Michael Avery Residency at Yaddo in 2016, the Carol Scholsberg Memorial Prize in 2012, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust Travel Fellowship in 2008. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo in 2013 and 2016, The Byrdcliffe Colony in 2014, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by On Stellar Rays in N.Y.C.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Channing Hansen was educated at San Francisco Art Institute, where he participated in the New Genres program. Hansen’s current work incorporates his interest in the history of science and technology into his fibre-based art practice. His work has been included in exhibitions at Solway Jones Gallery and Outpost, both Los Angeles; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; Glendale College Art Gallery; Nuit Blanche, Toronto; and Hilary Crisp Gallery, London; and was most recently featured in Made in LA 2014 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Womb-Womb Room, a collaborative installation made with Alexandra Grant based on Faith Wilding’s Crocheted Environment (1972), otherwise known as the Womb Room, was presented at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, in 2011. His work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Ahmanson Foundation, as well as private collections. Hansen is also active as an educator through the Mountain School of Art.
Josh Faught lives and works in San Francisco, California and is an Associate Professor at the California College of Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. Recent solo museum exhibitions include a site-specific installation at the Neptune Society Columbarium as part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award Exhibition (2013); the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri (2013); and the Seattle Art Museum in conjunction with his Betty Bowen Award (2009). His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Emily Foundation for the Arts, New York (2014); the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2014); Grazer Kunstverein, Austria (2013); Oakville Galleries, Ontario (2013); and Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014). His work is included in the permanent collection of the SFMOMA, the ICA Boston, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Rubell Family Collection.
Sergej Jensen was born in Denmark in 1973 and was educated at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Primarily known for his textile works, his lyrical compositions incorporate a variety of fabrics, from burlap and linen to silk and wool. His work has been exhibited in a number of major international group exhibitions including Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk, Denmark (2016); Losing the Compass, White Cube, London (2015); and Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2013). Solo exhibitions include National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2016); Dépendance, Brussels (2015); White Cube Hong Kong (2014); Berlinische Galerie (2013); and MoMA PS1, New York (2011). He lives and works in Berlin and New York.
