Wool Abstract Sculptures

Marlene Hoffman, Galleria 70 Handmade in Columbia. El Clervo y el Torro Tapestry. Bears gallery label verso and signed with initials on front in weave, MH. Dimensions: Height: 82 inches X Width: 82 inches. (size is approximate label has 2.15 X 2.15 meters) Hand made, hand woven horse hair and wool spectacular textile wall hanging by pioneering woman artist and art dealer of Latin America art, Marlene Hoffmann. It consists of a horsehair design handwoven onto a wool handmade back. (this is a sort of tapestry, not the Aubusson or Gobelin type but more of a 3D sculptural wall piece.) She is considered a pioneer in the field of Colombian textile art, in company with Olga de Amaral and Stella Bernal. She owned and directed an influential gallery on Bogota Colombia for many years. She is on the Metropolitan Museum in NYC timeline of world art. In the 1960s, Pop Art inspired artists. Gloria Valencia de Castaño invented and that invited designers to show what fashion would be like in the year 2000, inspired by masters of Colombian art, such as Enrique Grau, Alejandro Obregón, Felisa Burstyn, Cecilia Porras, Omar Rayo and David Manzur...

Neon Hills, Original Fiber Wall Hanging Artwork 6x36 (HxW), Wood, Cotton, Wool Neon Hills is a fiber art piece that will breathe life into any blan...

Asger Jorn (1914-1973) Ege Axminster, Denmark. Danish Tapestry Rug Art-Line Etiquette de l'éditeur Ege Axminster (Danemark) titrée au revers. Les Emigrants 132 x 98 inches, Pure ...

Miracle, Włodzimierz Cygan, linen, wool and sisal, 56.5” x 47” x 6.5” 2006 Włodzimierz Cygan is a Polish artist who is widely known for his intriguing and detailed weaving and tapes...

Hand made, hand woven horse hair and wool spectacular textile wall hanging by pioneering Latin American woman artist Marlene Hoffmann. It consists of long hanging pods from a woven back. (this is a sort of tapestry, not the Aubusson or Gobelin type but more of a 3D sculptural wall piece.) She is considered a pioneer in the field of Colombian textile art, in company with Olga de Amaral and Stella Bernal. She owned and directed an influential gallery on Bogota Colombia for many years. She is on the Metropolitan Museum in NYC timeline of world art. In the 1960s, Pop Art inspired artists. Gloria Valencia de Castaño invented and that invited designers to show what fashion would be like in the year 2000, inspired by masters of Colombian art, such as Enrique Grau, Alejandro Obregón, Felisa Burstyn, Cecilia Porras, Omar Rayo and David Manzur. Gonzalo Arango presented an outfit for a swimmer (bathing suit) and Olga de Amaral and Marlene Hoffman wove some of the fabrics for the designs. Since the Visionaries program investigations, it has been a pleasure to find the work of Marlene Hoffmann, Colombian pioneer of textile art who, together with Olga de Amaral, Gabriela Samper de Bermúdez, among others, laid the foundations of a language that for a long time was an axis in the national artistic scene, and that from the hand of architecture was part of the intellectual process that modernized Bogotá and the way of inhabiting it. She has showed with major colombian artists Fernando Botero, Luis Caballero...

Drift, cotton, wool, woven, linen, silk and embroidery threads, 41" x 50", 2008. This contemporary abstract tapestry was done by British textile artist, Jo Barker. Jo Barker (b. 196...

Adela Akers (b. 1933, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a Spanish-born textile and fiber artist. She is Professor Emeritus (1972 to 1995) at the Tyler Scho...

Hommage a Rothko, wool, 87" x 84 1/2", 1979. This mid-century geometric abstract woven tapestry was done by Canadian textile artist, Mariette R...