Connective Threads: Across Materials, Methods & Meanings

FEATURING “Reality” and “Dream”

Connective Threads:

Across Materials, Methods & Meanings

Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA

Jan 28- April 15, 2023; reception Feb 4, 6-9pm

Fiber Art from Southern California

Curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce Connective Threads, a survey of contemporary fiber art in Southern California. Organized by Palos Verdes Art Center, the exhibition is curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria. Connective Threads opens January 28 and runs through April 15, 2023. An artists’ reception will be held February 4 from six to nine pm.

Exhibiting artists include Fafnir Adamites, Casey Baden, Jim Bassler, Cameron Taylor Brown, Ben Cuevas, Phyllis Green, Lydia Tjoie Hall, Annette Huelly, Dong Kyu Kim, Michael Koch, Jeanne Medina Le, Mary Little, Carmen Mardonez, Victoria May, Blue McRight, Diane Meyer, Dominga Opazo, Claudia Parducci, Michael F. Rohde, Gwen Samuels, Lorenzo Hurtado-Segovia, Meredith Jackson Strauss, Carol Shaw Sutton, Regina Vorang, and Kay Whitney. 

Connective Threads provides a window into what is currently engaging fiber artists, even as this discipline continues to evolve and change. Emanating from artists’ studios in Southern California, the exhibition offers unique perspectives on the complicated identities of fiber art as a genre. Fiber artists can formally exploit the medium’s connections to pattern, color, shape, and texture. Multilayered content can also be woven into its structure through abstract, representational, or narrative strategies. The works on view encompass a rich diversity of influences and inspirations, independent from conventional expectations. Collectively they offer a penetrating examination of fiber’s possibilities.