POINT – LINE – PATTERN – PLANE

Heights Arts, Cleveland, Ohio

January 17–March 1, 2020

An exhibition of textile art curated by Janice Lessman-Moss, this exhibition highlights a range of work being done by artists in NE Ohio using the distinctive materiality and processes associated with the medium of Fibers. Although building on a foundation of traditional techniques, all the artists use the language of textiles to create objects of beauty and meaning, reflecting the sensibilities of our time. Processes such as weaving, stitching and dyeing are used to develop form and surface, while repetition, accumulation, color and pattern are mined for content and character.

Biotracings Series 2 (2020), develops from Biotracing Series 1 and Preservation Sequence (2018), expanding a collection of futuristic, natural history objects, or “exprints” of imagined, extinct plant species. The drawings that are etched into the plexi field, through which silk, and waxed threads and ribbons penetrate, are derived from shadows cast by the silk forms made with the shape-resist and immersion dye processes of traditional Japanese shibori. Inspired by Latin taxonomies of endangered plants from Ohio, I have titled these pieces to honor my art and spirit sisters. This work considers a plausible future, where what is familiar now exists only as skins and tracings of remembered bioforms.