Exhibitions

Ways of Seeing — exploring ways individuals envision and curate art collections, September 21 - 29, 2024 Browngrotta Arts

Dialogue with the Beast, July 5 - August 10, 2024 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Gallery

On Weaving, April 23 - July 13, 2024, Textile Center

Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat, February 24 - June 1, 2024, GW Museum & The Textile Museum

Lesser-Known Ikat Traditions, GW Museum & The Textile Museum

Dialogue with the Beast, July 5 - August 10, 2024 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Gallery

These are dialogues in ikat – my chosen medium— intertwining color and threads, giving life to imagery with my desire for color, pattern, texture, movement, and shifts. Ikat has become my embodied language; my way of processing and understanding these turbo-charged times. I take unreachable, unspeakable, intangible thoughts and weave a response in silk, paper and pigments.

They are born from my hands and held by the loom.

Painting and layering unfamiliar and raw materials directly onto thread brings forth the veils of color with pigments, stains, glazes, blurs, globs that are necessary in these conversations. There is precision in this technique yet the translation is raw, my gesture unscripted. Nothing is clean and clear. The tension of encountering a stranger within is central to my new work and I have found a new enthusiasm.

Each work in this show embodies more than I may wish to speak of. They embody emotions, history, gesture and a multitude of voices.

Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat, February 24 - June 1, 2024, The Textile Museum

Prized worldwide for producing vivid patterns and colors, the ancient resist-dyeing technique of ikat developed independently in communities across Asia, Africa and the Americas, where it continues to inspire artists and designers today. This exhibition explores the global phenomenon of ikat textiles through more than 70 masterful examples from countries as diverse as Japan, Indonesia, India, Uzbekistan, Côte d'Ivoire and Guatemala.

The George Washington University | The Textile Museum

“Tracing the mesmerizing textile patterns – and global influence – of ikat”, by Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, May 8, 2024