Paper Weavings from Day Job Detritus

Before this year's A-Z, I started doing paper weavings from reject printouts of my pattern designs at the day job. (I am a surface designer for a mass-market underwear and loungewear company).
I mentioned the process in the post about the Fluevog Faith.

First weaving, January 23:

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Got a #weaving idea this AM during my commute: use "reject" printouts of panty design combos from work. Fun! Now how do I get it to hold together? 🤔 #pattermixing #annembray

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How did I solve my "hold it together" dilemma? Sticking a 4x3" mailing label on the back!

I diligently did this every morning through the first week of April,
until I started getting to work too late to be stealth about it.

This is the last batch, April 2-5:

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Parameters developed over the course of the project (as they tend to do for me):

• Mix a women's panty print with a men's lounge pant print
• Try to make the mixture as uncoordinated as possible

Here's a Camo / Blue Ditsy set from March 6-21:

I've got a lot reject camo printouts on large 11x17 printouts -- I was not having success color matching to a printed garment.

In fact, I gave up, since it became unnecessary.

I've since had to do two other colorways of the camo with even more reject printouts.

I could do a whole camo weave series at this point!

Conclusion: camo is hard to color match, especially to Pantone standard chips.

I've submitted this series to be part of the Otis 100 Projects. We'll see if anything happens.
I'm also committed to get back to weaving detritus. It's relaxing!

New Threads Exhibition at Laband Art Gallery

The Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles held a captivating exhibition of contemporary textile-based work entitled New Threads, January 27 - March 17, 2018.
It was my second time on campus, and first visit to the gallery, and navigating the campus was difficult (very bad signage). I believe it was Spring Break -- the only humans I saw were either the maintenance crew zipping around in carts or prospective applicants touring the campus and as lost as I was.

I should have just looked for the yarn bombed trees!

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Did these colorful fluffy balls lead me to the location?

Edna Torres, yarn balls installation

No.

Darlyn's yarn bombed bench got me closer.

Darlyn Susan Yee, crocheted bench cover

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, yarn bombed entry, interior of gallery

Following are some highlights of the exhibition.

Diane Meyer, Class Two (detail), Hand-sewn archival ink jet print

Consuelo Jiminez Underwood, Run, Jane, Run!, Woven cotton, linen, fabric, barbed wire, CAUTION tape

Consuelo Jiminez Underwood, Mendocino Rebozo, Fabric, safety pins, glass beads

Delicious Taste, part of Re-Corded History, Mixed media

Mara Lonner, Privacy Burnout, Silk/rayon velvet devoré with mixed media

James Gobel, I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going, Felt, yarn, rhinestones, acrylic on canvas

Jasmine Delgado, SFV Fabrication, Screenprint, fabric, embellishments

Miyoshi Barosh, Soft Intervention, Found afghans and polyester fiberfill

Mark Newport, Fman and Argyleman, both Hand-knit acrylic yarn and buttons

Ben Cuevas, Twitterstorm, Knit wool

Aubrey Longley-Cook, Runaway, Hand embroidered cotton thread on cotton cloth, 2 digital animations

Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, 14 Cetros, Wood and cord
and hanging above Ojo de Dios, Wood, acrylic paint, polyolefin cord

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! 

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