Maren Hassinger at Art + Practice.

Maren Hassinger has an interesting exhibition Art + Practice, and it's surface design related.

Maren Hassinger, installation view

Maren Hassinger, Whirling, Wire and wire rope, 1978

Maren Hassinger, Whirling (detail), Wire and wire rope, 1978

Maren Hassinger, The Veil Between Us (detail), Twisted and knotted New York Times newspapers, 2007/2018

Maren Hassinger, The Veil Between Us (detail), Twisted and knotted New York Times newspapers, 2007/2018

Maren Hassinger, installation made from inflated plastic shopping bags

Maren and friend in the video room with Maren and her uncle projected

Diedrick Brackens Studio Visit

Diedrick Brackens is a fiber artist who has been selected to be part of Made in L.A. 2018 at the Hammer.
Through the auspices of Textile Arts Los Angeles, I was able to visit him at his studio in Leimert Park today.

He shared examples of experiments from a recent residency in New Orleans.

if you feed a river

jubilent . unidentified

detail

part of a project about water
yarn is dyed with black dye and the water from different sources

Pacific Ocean on left, Lake Pontchartrain on right.

 Three of us then walked over to Maren Hassinger's opening at Art + Practice.

More about that in a later post!

If you live in Southern California, and have an interest in the fiber arts (in all its many forms!), consider getting on the email list of Textile Arts Los Angeles. Lots of interesting things transpiring with the group! 

Linking up with Shelbee's #SpreadTheKindness
and
Catherine's #SaturdayShareLinkup

And the results are in...

How did I do in the Spoonflower challenge?
Did not make the top 25, alas.

The top ten:

Did any of my own votes make the cut?

Nope. Never did consider myself part of the vox populi.

The next challenge I'm entering is another "limited palette" theme called Monochrome.

This time, I'm entering a painterly abstract design, which I'll share next month at voting time.

Submissions close on March 13, for all you print designers out there.