Art by Medium: Thread

Pagter’s minimalism is emblematic of the shared sensibilities of Scandinavian and Japanese artists, popularly termed 'Japandi'. Into Blue is one in a three part series. “In the refi...

Refleksy (Reflexes), flax (linen) and wool, 50" x 48" x 2", 1973. This warm, vivid Mid-Century tapestry, Refleksy (1973) is by Polish textile artist, ...

"Sign (black)" 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 n...

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...

Linda Kamille Schmidt is inspired by the colors and textures of transparent and opaque fabrics that she collects and sews into layered, geometric collage...

Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt so...

Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt sources and arranges her fabric...

Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt so...

THE LONG SUMMER captures the patterned light peering through the blinds on a late Summer's afternoon. This painting is is part of an on-going series th...

Nan Van Ryzin (American, born 1952) "Entwined" 2019 Oil Paint, mesh, wire, mixed media, canvas, stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Based in...

This painting is part of a 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 ...

Nailed It Series No.60 27 x 51 x 2 in acrylic paint and thread an wood Born in 1986 in Agra, India Lives & works in New Delhi, India Sumit Mehndiratta is a multi-disciplinary artist from India whose works have been exhibited in the United Arab Emirates, Italy, India and Japan. Always open to new techniques and styles and weary of how repetition can stifle creativity, he creates abstract works that move from geometric and structured to soft and shaded. Education MSc. International Fashion Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, 2007-08 ​BSc Hons. Marketing, University of Bradford, UK, 2004-07 ​ Solo Exhbitions 'Fluid Resonance', Solo exhibit by Sumit Mehndiratta, Bestcollegeart Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2017 'Solo show by Sumit Mehndiratta', Gallery Alerid, Impulse arts Gallery, New Delhi, India. September 2011 ​ Group Exhibitions Movement in Art, Group exhibit of 8 artists at Pullman, Dubai Creek City Centre, February-April 2020, UAE. ​Goa Affordable Art Fair, 2nd Edition, Museum of Goa, Goa, India 2019-2020 "Awakening", LGBT Group show at Hotel Lalit Great Eastern, Kolkata, organised by InsideOut Delhi, 2019 ​"Awakening", LGBT Group show at Art Junction Gallery, Hotel Lalit, organised by InsideOut Delhi, Connaught Place, New Delhi, 2019 ​Group show by Art4You Gallery at The Art Expo, New York, 2019 "Nailed it Series", Group exhibit by PetitMorpho Gallery at Art Future Taipei, Taiwan, 2019 "Karmascope Series", Exhibit by ArtRooms London, Melia White House, London, UK, 2019 ​"Refracted Lives", LGBT Group show at Art Junction Gallery, Hotel Lalit, Connaught Place, New Delhi, 2018 ​Group show at MAD Gallery Milano from October 2018 to October 2019, Milan, Italy 'WeContemporary Palermo', MUSA International Art Space, Palazzo Castrone di Santa Ninfa, Palermo, Italy, 2018 ​"Nailed it Series", Wall sculpture exhibit by Petit Morpho Gallery at Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Japan, September 2018 ​"Value Beyond", Group Exhibition by Gallery Veda, July 2018, Chennai, India. "Absolute Abstract", Group Exhibition by Art Smiley Art Gallery at Hilton, Dubai, UAE, May 2018 ​"Neoflora", Group exhibition with Art Smiley Art Gallery at World Art Dubai Art Fair, April 2018, Dubai, UAE ​"Edelweiss Pallate Art Show Part 2" Charity Fundraiser by Edelgive Foundation, February 2018, New Delhi, India. "Within Reach", 7th Edition Presented by Burgundy Events at Gallery Nvya, Saket, 2016, New Delhi, India. "Edelweiss Pallate Art Show" Charity Fundraiser by EdelGive Foundation, February, 2016, Mumbai, India. "God Particle", AIFACS (All India Fine Art & Crafts Society), New Delhi, August 2015, India. "Indian Art Foundation Group Exhibition", Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, February 2015 New Delhi, India. 'Strings Attached', United Art Fair 2nd Edition, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, 2013, India 'Art to heart, season 4', Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, April 2013, India. 'Simply Strokes Part 2', Open palm court gallery, India Habitat Centre New Delhi, Jan 2013, India 'Simply Strokes part 1', Visual arts gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, Nov, 2012, India 'Shutters and brushes', Manchester amateur photographic arts society, Manchester, UK, August 2008 ​ Projects ​ Series of Limited edition prints for the Raffles Resort, 5 star luxury resort based in Maldives, January 2020. Large scale abstract works for a Chinese Bank in Houston, Texas 2019. ​Black and white abstract drawings and painting Project with FSCA in collaboration with K. Associates for drawing and acrylic works in Mumbai, India. Triptych Wall art installation at WIPRO headquarters in Coimbatore, TN, commissioned through ArtFlute Gallery based in Coimbatore, India, 2019. Thread Artworks commissioned by Indiewalls for display at Dulles Airport Terminal, Washington DC, USA, 2019. ​Limited edition archival prints for a project in Hyatt Place/House, Indianapolis, USA, 2019. ​The Four Seasons, Dubai, Wall Sculpture installations at Burj Alshaya, Kuwait, 2018 The AC Hotels Project- Wall sculpture installations for AC Hotels by JW Marriott, Texas, USA, 2017 ​The Bahamas Resort Project - Commissioned black and white floral photographic prints...

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...

"View" captures an environment exposed through an obstructions such as streaks on glass. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tenne...

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...

Alan Shields Untitled double sided mixed media work, 1974 Mixed media: watercolor, string, and torn paper held in custom standing frame Signed, dated, and numbered lower edge '10/12 ...

WINDOW V captures the soft patterned shadow of the trees veiled by a sheer curtain. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee....

"[Masakazu Kobayashi's] woven Waves in dyed threads rank[s] among the most perfect in aesthetic effectiveness ever produced by contemporary weaving….This Japanese way of conjuring up such transparency with threads, of perceiving the thread itself as something creative is highly artistic. They celebrate aesthetic beauty in a way no one can elude.” From “Textile Art and the Avant-garde,” Erika Billeter (Contemporary Textile Art: the Collection of the Pierre Pauli...

"PRLS-1000" is part of Eric Mack's urban grid series. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack creates movement across the piece with dynamic techniques of washy underpainting underneath matted pieces of paper, and thread. His paintings have been described as "intellect on top of emotion." 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...

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...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), "Align #9", Acrylic on Tarlatan, with applied dried paint swatches, signed in paint lower right and titled lower center. 41" H x 43" W. Provenan...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 tran...

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...

Barbara Hocker sees her life’s vocation as being an ambassador for the natural world through her art. Nature is facing many challenges right now. Hock...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thread, metal and acrylic paint on wooden panel Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in Interna...

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...

Vintage magenta abstract by Maureen Fenton-Hanson a Monterey artist (American, 1946-2007). Signed "Fenton" and dated "74" lower right and on verso. Unf...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940) Rainbow Grid Mixed Media Sculpture, dried paint on tarlatan, signed to the verso. 37.5" H x 40" W. Provenance: From the Collection of the artist....

"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...

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...

Thread, nails and acrylic paint on wooden panel, edition of 7 Artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate

Rachel Wickremer is a Canterbury based painter known for her colourful work exploring the relationship between the maker and the prefabricated, she is...

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...

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...

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...

Acrylic, oil, thread, and fabric on canvas Eozen Agopian (b.1960), is an artist of Armenian descent born in Athens, Greece. She has received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt...

"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...

Linda Kamille Schmidt is inspired by the colors and textures of transparent and opaque fabrics that she collects and sews into layered, geometric collage...

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 well of both excitement and sentimentality. Her transparent and opaque fabrics mingle together with an almost casual ease. Schmidt’s hand is evident in the cut, placement, and suturing of each strip. The artist vacillates between precise machine and loose, wobbly hand-sewn stitches. Her subtle use of pins in the works act as focal points for the eye as it dances around the celebration of color and texture. As a result, her works refuse the sterility of manufacturing, and challenge the reductive elision of perfectionism and femininity. This sense of touch evokes a closeness with the fabric, almost inviting contact. A hot frenzy of geometric forms, Schmidt’s fabric swatches about and overlap to form a kaleidoscopic play with depth and recession. Coupled with the scale of these smaller pieces, Schmidt draws her viewer forward, and entices them to fall into her mesmerizing displays.  Linda Kamille Schmidt is originally from Kansas where she attended Bethel College and where most of her family still lives. She received an MA and MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY, since 1989. Solo and Group shows have included AIR Gallery (New York, NY), Ann Street Gallery (Newburgh, NY), Art in Embassies (Kohor, Republic of Palau), Art Mora (Ridgefield Park, NJ; Seoul, South Korea; New York, NY), ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY), Carroll and Sons Gallery (Boston, MA), Chazou Gallery (British Columbia), Cheryl Hazen Gallery (New York, NY), Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York, NY), Curious Matter (Jersey City, NJ), DeDee Shattuck Gallery (Westport, MA), Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York, NY), Main Window Dumbo (Brooklyn, NY), Port Washington...

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...

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: 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 ...

This piece presents to us glossy longitudinal stripes of pastel hues, overlaid on a foggy blue-grey underpainting with meticulously rendered raindrops. The earthy fragrance of spring...

"Rising Burst" is created by Heather Hartman to capture the light bursting through an obstruction. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscap...

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...