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Marie H. Elcin’s Stitching Hour at Random Tea Room

[This is the first in several ultra-brief posts I hope to get up this week about work I've seen recently that have given me tremendous pleasure or piqued my interest in some way. I'm sort of overwhelmed with outside-the-blog life, but I really wanted to tell you about this stuff.--libby] Marie H. Elcin, Abstracts series: Brave Embroidery is usually a backwater in contemporary art, a medium that speaks of the kitchen table, colonial samplers and saccharine sentiments. But Marie H. Elcin‘s embroideries, while giving a nod to the medium’s historic uses, makes work that is something else again. The Stitching ... More » »

Report from Istanbul: The state of affairs

Post by Marie H. Elcin Sultanahmet Iftar Istanbul is an overwhelming, sprawling city with over 12 million citizens, where the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. As it is a modern metropolis, I had expected to find a hopping contemporary art center to rival New York, or at least Philadelphia, especially considering the recent rise of the Istanbul Biennial, the brand new Istanbul Modern Art Museum, and the city’s upcoming status as 2010 European Capital of Culture. I came away with mixed impressions, partly due to the quality of the work I saw, and partly because ... More » »

A fab fiber four: the first stitch

Marie Elcin. Water, Water, Everywhere, detail of the installation which suggests that nature cannot be denied its power by the likes of us The fabulous fiber exhibits all around town for FiberPhiladelphia are more than even I can take in, and goodness knows, as a fan of fiber, I want to see it all. What’s going on here–a multi-institutional, multi-organizational and multi-gallery cooperative effort–is amazing and overwhelming. This is the first of two posts on the four I did see so far. And here’s a link to our post, which links to additional listings . There’s so much to see ... More » »

Put a stitch in your time–Philly Fiber Arts Month 2006

Deer Head Doily by Shannon Robinson, doily and machine stitching, 2005 This year digital processes have taken over in the world of fiber and in quilts, but it almost seems irrelevant to me, except that warps and woofs talk especially loudly to the weavers and quilters and beaders who think in pixilated grids. For the most part, the digi stuff is just a tool and a process. (Of course fiber folks are process crazy, just like print folks, and some of these artists are both.) What’s relevant are the beauty and variety, and the input into the Contemporary Art conversation. ... More » »