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October Issue
2008
Appalachian State University in Boone,
NC, Features Works by Textile Artists and Elana Herzog
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, is presenting the exhibits: Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles and New Work by Elana Herzog, on view through Nov. 14, 2008 at the Catherine J. Smith Gallery.
Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles includes work by artists from Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United States. This exhibition features creative and innovative textiles, fabrics, and sculptures. The objects in this exhibition demonstrate overlaps in the production of art, craft and design objects. Featured designs and works are representative of five 21st-century categories: Smart Textiles; Performance and Interactive Textiles; Boutique Clothing; Exclusive Interior Textiles; Public and Corporate Textile Commissions.
These artists/designers/artisans employ both artistic creativity and scientific constructs to craft their work. Artists whose work is included in the exhibition are: Zane Berzina, Joanna Berzowska, Sara Clugage, Hil Driessen, Catharine Ellis, Janis Jefferies, Bethanne Knudson, Barbara Layne, Christy Matson, Patricia Mink, Tim Parry-Williams, Kari Merete Paulsen, Jennifer Robertson, Ismini Samanidou, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, Rachael Wingfield, Anna Zaharakos, with Leslie Armstrong and Anke Fox.
This exhibition is organized by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, in Hendersonville, NC, an inter-institutional center of the University of North Carolina.
Elana Herzog is creating a site-specific work for the Catherine J. Smith Gallery. Herzog visited the campus in Apr. 2008 in preparation for the project. During this visit, she interacted with students and faculty as well as toured the area. The downturn of furniture and textile manufacturing in the North Carolina resonated with the artist and influenced this new work. Herzog's projects emerge from the walls to examine our relationship to technology, architecture and the handmade object. Currently, students at Appalachian State University are assisting with the installation utilizing found textiles, sheetrock, plaster, staples and drawing on the walls.
This project is curated by Jody Servon, director of the Catherine Smith Gallery. Servon states, "the gallery committee was interested in having Elana create a project specifically for our campus, as well as having her work directly with our students. This project enables students to gain first-hand experience working with an internationally-recognized artist to construct a politically-charged work."
Herzog was born in Toronto and currently lives
and works in New York. She has held several solo exhibitions,
including: Making Traces (with Lieven DeBoeck), LMAK Projects,
NY (2007); Plaid, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (2007); and W(e)ave
(collaboration with Michael Schumacher), Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield,
CT (2007), Wallscape, Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage
(2006); Civilization and its Discontents, Herbert F. Johnson
Museum, Ithaca, NY (2005); So Bennington (with Eve Sussman),
Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT (2005); and Negative Capability,
Diverse Works, Houston, TX (2002). She has participated in several
group exhibitions, including: Perverted by Theatre, Apex
Art, New York (2008); Ho Hum all Ye Faithful, Bravin Lee,
New York (2007); and Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming
Museum, Burlington, VT (2007); Radical Lace and Subversive
Knitting, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2007); and Intelligent
Design, Momenta Art, Brooklyn (2007).
Herzog has been the recipient of various awards, including: Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2007); Individual Artists Fellowship,
New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Lillian Elliot Award
(2004); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1999).
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/262-7338 or visit (www.art.appstate.edu/cjs/).
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