textile buzz

On my way today I popped into the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design to see the show "Installation/Innovation". The work was widely diverse, as I would expect from a muesum show. But I'm not terribly interested in the intersection of technology and textile so half the show wasn't really my bag baby. There were two artists whose work I enjoyed, Jennifer Angus and Kyoto Nitta. The beautiful repeating wallpaper designs by Angus are lovely to gaze upon. She uses soft calming colors and what look like lovely repeating floral shapes, but as you get closer you realize the images are made up of bugs — very cool. The other artist has re-sewn 25 pairs of jeans, from people she knows and loves, using this gorgeous white gauze fabric and hung them high over head as though they are linens on a drying line in heaven. All of the pockets are connected through sewn fabric tubes stretching from one pocket to the next. The installation was eerily breath taking.
