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Rubin Gallery
April 10 - August 2, 2008
Co-curated by Kate Bonansinga and Stephanie Taylor
Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions focused on performative knitting practice in the creation of avant-garde, contemporary sculpture. This invitational exhibition highlighted artists who are advancing and questioning established textile traditions. The artists addressed stereotypes of gender, ethnicity and the ideas and materials appropriate for art making. They hailed from the United States,Mexico and the United Kingdom, all cultures that have strong yarn-based craft traditions. All of the artists upended those traditions through challenges to the domestic-based, utilitarian and female-made objects that are typical of the knitted crafts.UnKnitting questioned traditions and assumptions about who produces knitted objects, and how the objects can and should be used.
Unknittingartists: Adrian Esparza, United States; Rachel Gomme, United Kingdom; Mark Newport, United States; and Sandra Valenzuela, Mexico. The exhibition was curated by Kate Bonansinga, Director of the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts and Dr. Stephanie Taylor, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at New Mexico State University. Funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts.
