#orlygenger

[moma-prints]

What It All Comes Down To, Orly Genger, 2008, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Emily Fisher Landau Size: composition (irreg.): 30 1/16 x 5 3/16" (76.3 x 13.2 cm); sheet: 30 1/8 x 29 3/4" (76.5 x 75.5 cm) Medium: Lithograph

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/126102

[textileztextile]

Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it. Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using fiber in their work....

Images from top:

large scale crochet installation by Ernesto Neto

Jim Drain “drifter” a sculpture from 2018

Congratulations & Celebrations project by Ellen Lesperance, worn here by Jennifer Kabat

sculpture by Josh Faught

public art project by Orly Genger called Hurly Burly from 2016

yarn bombing Los Angeles 2013 project “CAFAM Granny Squared”

2 images of projects by artist Mark Newport: the first, documentation of performance called “Alter egos” from 2009, the second, “sweaterman 6″ from 2010

[moma-prints]

Rinema, Orly Genger, 2004, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Emily Fisher Landau Size: sheet: 23 1/8 x 18 1/2" (58.7 x 47 cm) Medium: Lithograph

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/98757

[bm-contemporary-art]

Introduction, Orly Genger, 2004, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Orly Genger Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Medium: Blind embossment from woodcut on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/211200

[thechingthing]

Dad and daughter in front of #OrlyGenger at Madison Squate Park (at Madison Square Park)