K/shrink at WHITE Milano

I love this new 'k/shrink' piece by km/a studio in Vienna.

km/a studio will be showing at WHITE Milano this weekend in via Tortona's conceptual  'basement gallery'. You might recall my mention of km/a in my report from Berlin Fashion Week. Sass Brown of Eco Fashion Talk  wrote a great article on their work after her visit to THE KEY.TO Berlin.

km/a installation (photo via Eco Fashion Talk)

visit km/a's website to learn more about their art/fashion projects

Anna Betbeze's Dyed Carpets at Kate Werble Gallery

ANNA BETBEZE, HOARFROST, 2011, WOOL, ACID DYES, WATERCOLOR
 

A very special thanks to my sculptor/fiber friend, Brece Honeycutt, for sharing information on Anna Betbeze's current 'Moss Garden' exhibition at Kate Werble Gallery in NYC. 

Unfortunately, I will not be back in town to see this amazing show before it closes, but I am really feasting on the images that appear on the gallery website as well as the review in the New York Times.

 ANNA BETBEZE, FROGGERY, 2011, WOOL, ACID DYES, WATERCOLOR

Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White

image: Charles Steckler, Untitled (2009) ink on paper Union College's Mandeville Gallery January 13, 2011 to March 13, 2011

Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White is a group exhibition featuring work by over a dozen artists including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Arnold Bittleman, Harold Edgerton, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, and James Siena, among others. The show explores the subtle, nuanced, intriguing, and sometimes disquieting approaches to nature by these artists in their work: photographs, prints, drawings, and digital works without color.  Through a vast range of styles and approaches, the black and white works in this show explore thoughts and questions about the human relationship to the natural world and the myriad complexities of the human mind, while simultaneously revealing the richly expressive power of black and white imagery. Curated by Sally Apfelbaum and Rachel Seligman Artists include: Robert Adams, Desirée Alvarez, Arnold Bittleman, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Harold Edgerton, Robert Gober, William Kentridge, Hedya Klein, Danny Lyon, Abelardo Morell, Margaret Moulton, Michelle Segre, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Charles Steckler and Kate Temple. via Ecoartspace

Save the Date: Fashioning Self and the Environment, An Earth Day Event at Brooklyn's Textile Arts Center

Titania Inglis Spring/Summer 2011 Collection

Save the Date for  this Earth Day event at the Textile Arts Center

in Brooklyn on Friday, April 22, 2011 

Join me for Earth Day 2011 to explore ideas related to fashioning self and our shared environment. Invited artists and local sustainable fashion designers will feature their own fiber, textile, and green design initiatives, as well as offering activities related to slow fashion styling and organic interactions with the environment.

Visitors will be able chat first hand with presenters, participate in on-site activities, and celebrate Earth Day 2011 with refreshments and treats from local sponsors and green businesses.

Susan Benarcik, Meiling Chen of Fearless Dreamer, Abigail Doan, Daria Dorosh, Eko-Lab, Titania Inglis, Eve Mosher, and Zoe Sheehan Saldana – are just a few of the names who will be participating.

Organically Grown sculpture by Susan Benarcik

Friday, April 22, 2011 from 6-9PM

rsvp@textileartscenter.com

Fashioning Self: Elis Vermeulen

Performance (2008), raw wool felt, pvc tubing by Elis Vermeulen

A place that I would like to inhabit at winter's end.

via Elis Vermeulen

'Snake and Molting' Textiles by Camille Cortet

There is no doubt that February is the month when we begin fantasizing about shedding our layers and sloughing off winter skin in preparation for the warmer days ahead.

Designer Camille Cortet wants to aid in this process with her Snake and Molting legwear, designed out of laser cut fabric that shows cumulative wear and tear based on the user's activity.

Snake and Molting legwear is part of Cortet's 'Transformations: Body Ornaments' series. 

The designer states, "By observing animals’ transformations we understand their behaviours, and ... thus start a process of transformation. My process is to (simulate) these animal inspired behaviours in 3 stages: copying, merging, and translating. The translation stage is about adapting these behaviours to our own culture. It is a way to create new gestures and a new body language within clothing and ornaments."

If biomimicry is what it takes to get you through the last stretch of winter, by all means slither around in some conceptual legwear that will not only be a conversation starter, but leave you feeling lighter as you snake your way into spring 2011.

via Dezeen