Studio Artists

 
Cathi Duffy
Mixed Media
Nancy Williams Mimno
Painter
Marilyn Paschal
Textiles
Emily Passman
Painter
Sally Santosuosso
Fiber Arts
Rani Sarin
Mixed Media
Micah Schatz
Painter
Patricia Sekler
Watercolors
Adrienne Sloane
Fiber Arts
Gayle Visentine Reynolds
Painter
Mimi Watstein
Graphic Arts
 

Adrienne Sloane

 “Two works that literally stopped me in my tracks and still follow me around are Japanese artists Emiko Nakano’s large multilayer weaving titled Ruins and US artist Adrienne Sloane’s hauntingly moving Cost of War, a series of small machine knit, linen figures lying horizontally and stacked in rows" -- President, Surface Design.

Truth to Power - Adrienne Sloane

Boston Globe Review

ARTIST STATEMENT

 Knitting shapes have long been defined by the human form. By moving the context of knitting from clothing geometry to sculpture, knitting becomes a medium with a link to a rich and complex fiber tradition that has the power of history behind it. To be able to turn a single strand of yarn into fiber building blocks with form and function, texture and color is also energizingly low tech.

Working in what has long been considered a traditional woman's medium, I aim to an artistic aesthetic informed by traditional craft, art and politics. Aspiring to dissolve those boundaries, I knit to rejoin the frayed and unraveled places around me.

See my website!

 

Reviews, Shows, Bio

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, July 25, 2007

“Adrienne Sloane's "Cost of War," for example, takes a moment to deliver its impact, as the viewer approaches the rows of 14 small forms tacked to the wall. They are knitted bodies, small grayish figures stretched horizontally, with sagging heads, feet and genitalia.”

 

American Craft, Fiberart International review, aug/sept, 2007

 “I was struck by Adrienne Sloane’s moving work Cost of War, 2006.  In the catalog, machine-knit linen “bodies” are strung out on a perfectly appropriate black background; in the gallery, pinned on a white wall they appear more emphatically three-dimensional, more elemental and immeasurably more poignant.” 

 

Exhibits CURRENT & UPCOMING

Munroe Center Resident Artist Show,
Lexington, MA, Sept. 8 - Oct. 31

Worcester Center for Craft Faculty Show, Worcester, MA, Sept. 6 – Sept. 30,

2008
Beyond Knitting, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, June 24-Aug. 31,

CURRENT TOURING EXHIBITIONS

Fiberart International 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, at the Mint Museum of Craft & Design,  Charlotte, NC, Sep. 15-Feb. 24, 2008 and to The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, April 7-June 23, 2008

Sum of the Parts, Surface Design Association, Kansas City, MO, Travels to Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and other venues through April, 2010

 
 
Bio info:
 

AWARDS

Fiber Celebration 2007, Non-functional Three Dimensional Honorable Mention, Greeley Museum, CO

Fiberart International 2007 Directors’ Award, Cost of War, Pittsburgh, PA,

The Knitting Guild of America, Best of Show in Machine Knitting, 1998

Niche Award Finalist, 1998

The Philadelphia Craft Show, The Wilde Yarns Prize for Excellence in Fiber, 1993

 

COLLECTIONS

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

The Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN

Private collections

 

RECENT GALLERIES & EXHIBITS

2007

Fiber Celebration 2007, City of Greeley Museum, CO, Betty Vera, juror

4th Juried Members’ Exhibit, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA

Stretched Threads, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL

2006

Arsenal Center for the Arts Members’ Show, Watertown, MA, Ceci Mendez, curator

Crafts National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, Gretchen Keyworth, curator

Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, juror

Reduce Reuse Recycle, Rose Marine Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

Tied Together, Textile Art in the 21st Century, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

Rebecca Stevens, curator

2005

Beyond the Classroom, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA Connie Kantar, curator Transformation, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, Arthur Dion, curator

NOTHING NEW, Fiber Art from Recycled Materials, The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

Gyongy Laky, curator

 

oTHER Selected Galleries and Exhibitions

The American Crafts Museum, NYC: 91

Colored Threads VII, Katie Gingrass Gallery, WI: 97, 98

The DeCordova Museum Style Show, Lincoln, MA: 96, 97, 98

Gifts of Art, The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA: 90

Julie’s Artisan’s Gallery, NYC: 90

Randolph Associates Fine Arts, MA: 2000

TLD Design center and Gallery, IL: 98, 99, 00

 

Selected Juried Craft Shows                                                                 

Crafts Park Avenue, NY: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98

Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA: 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99

The Philadelphia Craft Show, Phila, PA: 93, 95, 96, 98

Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC: 96                                                                 

 

PRESS & REVIEWS

Seeing the wiring on the wall, profile, The Boston Globe, September 2, 2007

American Craft, review, aug/sept, 2007

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, review, July 25, 2007

Surface Design Newsletter, letter from the president, vol 20, no 3, summer 2007

Surface Design Journal, Gallery Issue, September 2006

Rug Hooking Magazine, article, September/October, 2005

Fiberarts Design Book Six, Nancy Orban, ed., 1999

Fiberarts Magazine, profile, Jan/Feb. 1999

The Crafts Report, July 1998

 

CURATED

Playtime, children’s book illustrators, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Co-curated, 2006

Alterations, Sculpture by Boston Sculpture Gallery Artists, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Co-curated, 2006

 

TEACHING: CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

2007

Workshop: MetroWest Knitting Guild, March 14, 2007

Workshops and classes also at:

Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

2006

SID (Strategies for International Development), Puno, Peru workshops in Amantani, Capachica, Llachon and Siale, July

Alma de los Andes, El Alto, Bolivia, machine knitting workshops

Workshops and classes also at:

Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2005

Arequippa, Peru, work with Art Atlas designing for Indigenous Designs, July

Workshops and classes also at:

Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA

Watertown Adult Education, Watertown, MA

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA

2004

Alma de los Andes, Sorata, Bolivia, workshop week with lead knitters, October

Workshops and classes also at:

Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA

Watertown Adult Education, Watertown, MA

Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA

 

BOARDS & AFFILIATIONS 

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Board Member 2000-present

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Co-Chair Exhibits 2005-present

WARP Weave a Real Peace, Board member 2005-present

Watertown Cultural Council, Chair 1998-2003

Surface Design Association member 2005-present

 

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