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Sometimes a Wind Blows
Wonzimer Gallery
December 6, 2024 - January 10, 2025

Wonzimer is proud to present Sometimes A Wind Blows, a group exhibition exploring the diverse possibilities of textile art. The title of the show, taken from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet soundtrack, reflects the sweeping, ephemeral meditation of material on display.

Each artist showcases a wide range of techniques and media, from embroidery, weaving, painting, printing, and knitting to experimental manipulations of linen, velvet, or silk. Bringing together legacy artists with new generations of artists, this show explores the enduring appeal of textile art, as both tangibly luxurious and mysterious.

Installation, sculpture, and the inherent relationship to the surface of painting are all invoked in this exhibition. The disparate works coalesce into a shared sense of this romantic freedom offered by textiles: of the ethereal yet deeply felt whisper of wind that we interface with through fabric. An explicit sense of craft pushed into novel forms, emerges as a crucial concern in this diverse field.

From this expansive perspective, the works on display invite viewers to engage with the tactile nature of textiles, with shimmering significance in the contemporary zeitgeist. Exploring the environmental implications of material choices and through-lines of historical and cultural connection, Sometimes A Wind Blows offers a panoramic perspective on the world of textile art.
















Installation photographs by Cameron Crone

Amulet
Keystone Gallery
Los Angeles, 2024

PRESS RELEASE:

Keystone Gallery is pleased to announce Renata Daina Amulet on view June 2024. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery and presents handwoven tapestries, sculpture, and works on paper. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, June 8 from 6 - 8pm.

The language of textiles is translated throughout Daina’s tactile, mixed media practice. Labor-intensive techniques, such as hand weaving, rope coiling, and embroidery appear as foundation and embellishment on sculpture and tapestry. Geometric patterns adhering to the grid of horizontal and vertical threads meld into biomorphic forms mimicking organic growths and disintegrations.

Amulet explores the precious terrain between ancestral traditions and personal memories. Textiles handwoven by herself, her grandmother, and found fabrics made by unknown weavers are punctuated by painted and embroidered mark making. Intertwining natural fibers, such as raw linen, and synthetic threads emphasize symbiotic rather than dualistic notions. These soft talismans conjure earthly and otherworldly desires that are informed by new materialist theories and pre-Christian cosmologies.

Methods reflect spiraling life cycles and future (post)human landscapes. Laborious techniques such as coiling are repetitive and circular in motion; the technique mimicking our cyclical relationship with nature. Drawings based on familial weaving patterns appear like glitched out abstract geometries reveal the timeless knowledge of our ancestors. Handwoven textiles and repurposed materials move seamlessly between surface textures and multi-dimensional structures, shielding what surrounds us and what is within us.












Threads that Bind
Brea Gallery x Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center
October 14 - December 8, 2023

Threads that Bind explores the ways contemporary women artists have used textiles to give voice to the issues that bind us – both as individuals bound by gender restirctions and humanity bound together through common concerns. 

Exhibiting artists include: Ashley Cole, Renata Daina, Anna Luisa Delgado, Carole Gelker, Annette Heully, Brittany Kiertzner, Lesley Kice Nishigawara, Melody Nunez, Lindsay Preston Zappas, Elise Vazelakis, Peggy Wiedemann, and Lorraine Woodruff-long.




 


Our Vision is Clouded
Warbling
Shoreditch, London, 2023

Within a collective feeling, inside an incessant haze, partially concealed memories, fog up an otherwise lucid state. Turning ideas through our time, as Earth rotates through space, whilst a fragmented life watches on, blindness as a shield from a forbearing fate.

Josh Alford, Andreas Behn Eschenburg, Job Boot, Ethan Caflisch, Alex Cohen, Renata Daina, Grau Del Grau, Matthias Fabre, Elizabeth Gourlay, Andrew Kernan, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Tzuhan Lin, Róisín O’Sullivan, Joshua Phillips, Mila Rae, Kit Reynolds, Alejandro Sintura, Filipa Tojal, Feiyi Wen and Linda Zagidulina








Connective Threads
Palos Verdes Art Center
January 28 - April 15, 2023

Connective Threads, a survey of contemporary fiber art in Southern California. Organized by Palos Verdes Art Center, the exhibition is curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria. Connective Threads provides a window into what is currently engaging fiber artists, even as this discipline continues to evolve and change. Emanating from artists’ studios in Southern California, the exhibition offers unique perspectives on the complicated identities of fiber art as a genre. Fiber artists can formally exploit the medium’s connections to pattern, color, shape, and texture. Multilayered content can also be woven into its structure through abstract, representational, or narrative strategies. The works on view encompass a rich diversity of influences and inspirations, independent from conventional expectations. Collectively they offer a penetrating examination of fiber’s possibilities.

Exhibiting artists include Fafnir Adamites, Casey Baden, Jim Bassler, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Ben Cuevas, Renata Daina, Gail Fraser, Phyllis Green, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Molly Haynes, Annette Heully, Dong Kyu Kim, Michael Koch, Jeanne Medina Le, Mary Little, Carmen Mardonez, Victoria May, Blue McRight, Diane Meyer, Dominga Opazo, Claudia Parducci, Michael F. Rohde, Gwen Samuels, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Meredith Strauss, Carol Shaw-Sutton, Regina Vorgang, and Kay Whitney.









































































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