These are from August 2019 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro.
I feel like I’d seen her work before that. But, I haven’t got my pictures very organized and this is the earliest I can find right now.
I did not touch the art. But, I probably breathed on it.
And I did a really shitty job taking the reference photo.
Holy shit! Lien Truong teaches at UNC-Chapel Hill!
I am a huge fan and have been since I first saw her work. She just takes my breath.
I love the silk. I love the textures. I love the colors she uses.
If I ever meet her, I will be speechless.
This is at SECCA as part of their The Threads We Follow exhibition.
Warning: This has flickering lights.
There are holes at different heights on 3 sides of the hexagon.
It was acquired as part of the last exhibition put together by the previous director. He went out with a bang. You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experience was breathtaking.
This is one of my favorite pieces at our art museum. (FTR, I consider it “ours” because I pay taxes here and it belongs to the state where I live.) It is freakin’ huge.
The museum had an exhibition of Anatsui’s work a few years ago and there was a video showing his workshop. He goes through recycling to find bottle tops and cans and stuff which he brings back to his studio. He employs a bunch of people who flatten and shape his finds and he directs them to put together sections of same colors or same shapes. Then, he decides how they all go together.
One of the pieces had driven the curators nuts. It was around 20 “blankets” of gold pieces. The curatos were supposed to pick them up in the middle and let them settle into the shapes of peaks. The curator I talked to said “We don’t ‘create’ art! We hang it or set it up. This felt far too participatory.” And he thought that was Anatsui’s point, for them to be part of it. Which was complementary but a little unnerving.
New acquistion at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Today was the first time I’d seen it.
I am the Audience 