Tina Cassara Anna Karenina Series: Collage 1 2014 Cotton thread, computer aided embroidery On view from September 18 - October 30, 2014 at the Euclid Gallery of The Sculpture Center Threads, Lines, Traces draws upon a subtle interplay between the line of a fiber construction and a graphite line drawn on paper. Tina Cassaras most recent fiber-based work directly influenced David Sapps 2014 graphite on paper drawings. The two artists consider Threads, Lines, Traces, at The Sculpture Center, as the beginning of an ongoing artistic experimentation in aesthetic influence and different means to develop abstract narratives. . . . Tina Cassara has conducted extensive research into womens labor in the American textile industry in the early 20th century, especially by Italians and Jews, issues of European migration and relocation, and the assigned value of labor in historically women-dominated textile industries in the America South. Cassaras current fiber artwork joins her art making interpretation of these intense womens labors with her second area of interest in the relationship between drawing, writing, and thread as line, text and textiles. She has been considering the semiotic relationships between words and fiber and their revelation in her own work. The word line is related to the Latin linea, which originally meant a thread made from flax (linen); the word text derives from a Latin word meaning something woven. Cassara notes, When we write to record a story or idea we draw lines. In textiles the thread, a physical line, moves and turns, building a surface that is, at one and the same time, surface and substance. Please read more about the artists here: bit.ly/1wNBocU Follow us on Instagram @TheSculptureCenter
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:40:40 +0000
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