"FABRICations"

11-8-16

             On November 3rd I attended the art show called FABRICation in which the work of 7 individual artists were displayed that incorporated a textile sensibility through elements of fabric and fabrication.  These pieces are all handmade in order to go against our culture's large consumption of the media that moves so quickly, so they are slowing down the process through these handmade pieces of art.
              Many of these pieces are so brightly colored in order to activate one's senses and range from having a very intricate design to something that is more simple in the sense of a repeated pattern with only one to three colors seen in the color scheme of the piece. The more intricate patterns featured an image of things such as a tree and a dress that were more of a single color with square patterns surrounding it, making it resemble like something of a quilted pattern.  These pieces were done with more silk like material, especially in the detail of the large image and the smaller ones in the squares surrounding the center image. The use of the silk material made them dtand out so much more than the regular, most likely cotton material. I particularly loved the one that had an image of a tree.  The simpler and more minimalist looking pieces were just that, for they consisted of oil on wood paneling, which I thought was interesting because at first glance it looks like some material has just been stretched over the wood with a rectangle cut in the middle of it.  The name of these pieces, and possibly what is a series considering there were three of the. Being show,  were even more interesting, Relativity Veil. From this title it may suggest that these works are meant to represent what is relative to the world at one particular moment, wichbis why there would be a rectangle showing the original wood of the wood panel that this work has been created on.
             Most of the other works contained simple repeating patterns and one even covered the entire back wall of the gallery and seemed like the material used was a mix of regular fabric and that of a bag of rice or even coffee beans, for one square can be seen clearly with the word decaf written on it and two others that would say "product of Columbia" if they were to be placed side by side.  This particular piece was among my favorites of the works displayed in this exhibition. I really enjoyed this exhibition show in the sense of the types of fabric used and how these pieces were each unique even though they were all done with the same medium.