Strings of Desire
On view through May 7, 2023
Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California
craftcontemporary.org
United by themes of human desire and longing, “Strings of Desire” brings together thirteen artists who have created a hybrid aesthetic that conflates embroidery, painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore personal identities that, like their art forms, are not solitary. The artists featured in Strings of Desire have chosen to work with embroidery either as a singular medium or as part of a multimedia art practice and have embraced needle and embroidery floss to connect with and integrate their non-Western cultural heritages, their queer identities, and their fantasies.
Contemporary embroidery, like painting, has lately taken on a narrative or figurative bent with the story of desire and longing permeating this particular collection of artists including Chiffon Thomas, Kang Seung Lee, Sophia Narrett, Ardeshir Tabrizi, Jenny Hart, Jordan Nassar, Carmen Mardónez, Aubrey Longley Cook, Ken Gun Min, Diem Chau, Erick Medel and a portion of the 25 Million Stitches project.
[Image: Ken Gun Min, Night Lake, 2016-2022. Korean pigment collected bead/crystal, silk thread, embroidery wax, oil paint on canvas, 74 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist.]
