Art by Medium: Thread

OYV-19 is part of Eric Mack's ongoing body of work utilizing multi-media, complex compositions, and a grid centered around urban design. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack has re-purposed an old Lenny Kravitz album cover as the structure of the piece. On the edges of the piece you can see a complex edge consisting of a faux leather album cover, nylon mesh, and torn paper. As imagery, Mack has chosen musical notes, tape measure, and other music composition elements through Zerox copy adhered by matte medium to the surface. Mack then creates his own color to further tweak and personalize the piece. Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world. His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. Recent group shows include "Abstract Mind" at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea, "Small Works 2017 at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, "Checkered History", Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2015; Collections include High Museum Atlanta, Ing Investments, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport - Atlanta + Atlanta Gas & Light Co. Pepsi Cola, Tate Properties, Heath Gallery, Harold Dawson Properties, Turner Field/Atlanta Braves...

Mixed media (70″ x 30″) ABOUT THE ARTIST - Miami based artist Anthony Liggins is best known for his dreamlike, abstract artwork and his process in multi-layered painting. The creati...

VIEW is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image on paper then stretches a silkscreen on top of the image to create the...

This painting is a small framed early work by Heather Hartman. The majority of the canvas is overcast with ivory and grey cloud cover. In the lover left-hand quadrant of the painting...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a half-diamond shape, with an ellipsis cut-out close to the scalloped right edge. A red cotton thread completes the second half of the diamond shape, then hangs from the bottom corner, evoking the image of a kite. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

"Window IV" captures the sun peering in behind sheer curtains. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in T...

New technique as the artist continues his exploration of the image of Kate Moss. Emulsion + Cotton sewn on paper

From the Artist's new series of Kate Moss works where a new techniques is used. Kate #7#3 is a plywood cut (cut using a drill, different drill bits used to form the different size...

New technique from the artist emulsion + cotton sewn on cotton paper Based on a single image of Kate Moss

WHIRL II captures the soft patterned shadow of the leaves. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image...

In this painting, we see an underpainting of clouds parting around a sunburst at dawn. The natural curvature of the clouds is interrupted by hard-edged longitudinal stripes of gradie...

This abstract boat wall sculpture by Danish artist, Jane Balsgaard, is constructed with iron, bamboo, willow, fishing line and handmade plantpaper...

This abstract geometric mixed media piece was done by fiber artist, Jin-Sook So (b. 1950, Korea). So grew up in Seoul, Korea where she received a master's degree in textile art, afte...

Acrylic, plastic bags and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a...

Lydia Biddle Alphabet Needlework Sampler, 1795 Rows of alphabet above inscription, "Lydia Biddle / Made in the 11 year of her age 1795" Worked with silk threads on a linen ground 17 ...

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments of fabric, scrolls, drawings, and books collected during his travels. This kite entitled "Boro" is patterned with Japanese indigo-dyed fabric scraps, sewn together to form a patchwork of contrasting patterns and shades of blue. The kite's design recreates the traditional practice of Boro stitching...

This abstract geometric mixed media piece was done by fiber artist, Jin-Sook So (b. 1950, Korea). So grew up in Seoul, Korea where she received a master's degree in textile art, afte...

Shield #2 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, plastic bags and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from co...

Acrylic, plastic bags and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a...

Acrylic, plastic bags and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a...

Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a tra...

These new small-scale paintings were created using gouache on handmade paper. Alexandra Rutsch Brock then “drew” with a sewing machine using various colored threads. Using the thread as a painted line, playing with the marks and motifs the machine allows that creates contrast in both surface and color. They are sewn directly with no preliminary sketches, just instinctive gesture, sometimes in a similar color to enhance a texture, other times contrasting as a new element. The entangled threads that dangle down emphasize the materiality. Working so closely to the surface, she is aware of the senses of seeing, breathing, touching and feeling……………escaping into these new surfaces. Alexandra Rutsch Brock has exhibited in solo and group shows most recently at The Keck School at USC, CA, The Painting Center, NY, Village West Gallery, NJ and Misericordia University, PA. Her work has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine SV Vol44. Her recent co-curations include “HyperAccumulators” with Elizabeth Saperstein at Pelham Art Center, NY and “Among Friends” project with artists Patricia Fabricant and Beth Dary...

These new small-scale paintings were created using gouache on handmade paper. Alexandra Rutsch Brock then “drew” with a sewing machine using various colored threads. Using the thread as a painted line, playing with the marks and motifs the machine allows that creates contrast in both surface and color. They are sewn directly with no preliminary sketches, just instinctive gesture, sometimes in a similar color to enhance a texture, other times contrasting as a new element. The entangled threads that dangle down emphasize the materiality. Working so closely to the surface, she is aware of the senses of seeing, breathing, touching and feeling……………escaping into these new surfaces. Alexandra Rutsch Brock has exhibited in solo and group shows most recently at The Keck School at USC, CA, The Painting Center, NY, Village West Gallery, NJ and Misericordia University, PA. Her work has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine SV Vol44. Her recent co-curations include “HyperAccumulators” with Elizabeth Saperstein at Pelham Art Center, NY and “Among Friends” project with artists Patricia Fabricant and Beth Dary...

Pathways of Desire (2009) - block printed, manipulated, stitched, heat-set polyester, cotton thread. This contemporary abstract tapestry is by UK-based contemporary textile artist, Caroline Bartlett...

Artist Commentary: The flowers in this installation are hybrids of other flowers. I liked the idea of creating my own flowers and being able to arrange them in different ways depend...

B'Still Life, Anda Klancic, hand-controlled, machine-embroidered lace, cotton, synthetic, metal threads, 23" x 42", 1996-2020. "The tactility of the interweaving in the fibrous wor...

Lisa Pressman has a deep relationship with materiality, made more profound by a family loss in 2019. The "Messages" series, made between 2020-2025, contain burned marks, red-thread s...

Raíz Dorada En Silencio: Textile Relief in Natural Dyes, Contemporary Abstract Threads Mixed Media Created from reclaimed velvet dyed with natural chilca and pichana pigments gather...

Instantes Que Vibran En Profundidad, Oil Painting Mixed Media Textile Abstract Oil Painting Threads Mixed Media Instantes que vibran en profundidad explores the relationship between...

Hannah Reeves (American, b. 1981) Hannah Reeves is a Missouri native and holds an MFA in fibers from the University of Missouri. Her work explores themes of memory and the passage of...

This work, titled "The Milk Rivers" is a tryptic of 135x70 cm works and it's a jacquard weaving from cotton and recycled plastic thread Eco Nat. Artist Monika Zaltauskaite Grasiene...

Villa is a textile, installation and street artist. Her work primarily explores interconnection. Among her themes are the visionaries creating positive change throughout history, pop...

"Circle" is an artwork created by Gianluca Patti in 2019. This piece is the biggest of the Floating Series, which Patti created in 2019. Made using natu...

ink, flashe, acrylic, coffee, thread on paper

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a...

Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a...

Linda Kamille Schmidt plays with emotional connections and memory in her smaller, framed works. In their encasements, each collage appears as a portal; a...

Merging Styles and Cultures, Original Contemporary Mixed Media Installation, 2021 Digital images printed on transparency, hand-stitched Utili...

Artist Commentary: This dress was is an early piece when I was beginning to make dresses and was learning about shaping them. I was also using a camera for my imagery not my 1-phone...

Artist Commentary: “Tied”, the title of the installation, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily...

Artist Commentary: Remnants is a 3-part series with relief-like, sculptural pulp figures. Evolved from Finding Space, Remnants brings personal experience in unexpected incidents and uncontrollable situations into focus. This series narrates fragility and vulnerability. Handmade papers are layered as the accumulations of life and the traces of time. Stories from the past and the reminiscences are layered with another folds. Please reach out to us about purchasing 1 part of the series. Keywords: abstract, white, thread Artist Biography: Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. Her interest in the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She often uses her experience as a foreign transplant to question space and its implications in defining one's identity as the inspiration behind her work. Park has shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Artist Commentary: Suspenders and Leggings is my most recent piece done while sheltering in place. While looking thru my reformatted imagery patterns I came across some buildings I ...

Artist Commentary: Lip service came about during sheltering in place. While visiting with my grandchildren it broke my heart that they could not see me sm...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

"Blue #16" is an artwork created by Gianluca Patti in 2019. This piece is the part of the Floating Series, which Patti created in 2019. Made using natur...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

"Red #2" is an artwork created by Gianluca Patti in 2019. This piece is the part of the Floating Series, which Patti created in 2019. Made using natural...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a somewhat trapezoidal shape, with a scalloped top edge. A red cotton thread completes the remainder of the diamond shape. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Partly cloudy 44° (Abstract painting) Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them fro...

Partly cloudy 39° (Abstract Painting) Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them fro...

The Times (Abstract Painting) Acrylic, plastic bags and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shap...

Blue Water Dots (Abstract Painting) Watercolor / work on paper - Unframed This work on paper is made with thread and watercolor. It is a “drawing” of color with a brush, line wit...

Mostly cloudy 27° (Abstract Painting) Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed. The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them fro...

Bend 14 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions. This work from the series called Bend is a zig zag fragmented shape with a stitched edge that amplifies its 3 dimensional aspect. The optical effect is sculptural. There is a constant play between drawing, painting and sculpture. The painting has a dynamic energy and yet simultaneously convey a quiet poetry. Holly Miller is an American abstract artist whose paintings strive to merge the optical with the tactile through the language of abstraction. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Communication through the touch (body language) has inspired her tactile abstract paintings. Miller's palette echoes the tones and hues of Italian industrial design from the 60's and 70's, while her shapes recall architecture and urban structures. Her work has a huge affinity to Fontana's physical approach to his paintings and Burri's tactile manipulation of the painting's surface. Ellsworth Kelly's bold shapes and colors have resonated with her on a purely optical level. Agnes Martin’s subtle, quiet, repetitive drawn lines, Fred Sandback’s strong architectural, minimal fiber lines drawn in space, Eva Hesse’s emotionally loaded structured webs, Richard Tuttle’s quirky and fresh drawings and humble objects, Bridget Riley's dynamic, optical compositions have left a deep impression on Miller inspiring her to carve out her own voice in Abstraction. By combining repeated threaded lines with geometric shapes of color, her work conveys many dichotomies: reductive painting and craft, illusion and material, warm and cool, absence and presence, masculine and feminine, bold and subtle, perfection and imperfection... The paintings have a physicality that is described through the monochromatic brush strokes and the punctured holes of the drawn lines that pierce the surface of the canvas, yet from a distance, they appear to be flat and suggest a fine line drawing...