The artist’s former sail-making loft on the East River in downtown Manhattan inspired this magisterial work. Part of a collection exhibition called The Artist of Coenties Slip, currently on view at MoMA, it looks at a brief period when a group of artists lived and worked on Coenties Slip, far downtown by the waterfront in […]
Alison Jacques presents ‘Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship’, a two-person exhibition dedicated to the work and lifelong friendship of Lenore Tawney (b.1907, Ohio; d.2007, New York) and Toshiko Takaezu (b.1922, Hawaii; d.2011, Hawaii). This is the first exhibition of Toshiko Takaezu’s work in the UK; Tawney has been represented and exhibited by Alison Jacques in London since 2017. Through showing the work of both artists together, in testament to their 50 year enduring friendship, this exhibition emphasizes how both artists, as pioneers and innovators, made their work in an ongoing spiritual quest to express an intangible truth.
At this year’s Independent 20th Century, Alison Jacques presents Time Trembling, a solo exhibition of work spanning 1958-1970 by renowned American artist Lenore Tawney (1907-2007).
Tawney began creating postcard collages in the ’60s while she was moving between studios and traveling internationally. Though she left Chicago, the artist maintained a longstanding friendship with Katherine Kuh, who was the first woman curator of European art and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. The two exchanged mail art over the course […]
On display from March 20 – July 28, 2024, this exhibition will feature approximately 200 objects from public and private collections across the country, including a major weaving by Lenore Tawney, referencing Takaezu and Tawney’s important joint exhibitions and their many decades of friendship.
On display from March 5–June 16, 2024 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the striking connections between artists of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th century.
On display from Sep 17th, 2023 – Jan 21st, 2024 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An exhibition exploring the intersection of abstract art and woven textiles over the past century.
May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025 at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC. The thirty-four selected artworks piece together an alternative history of American art.
On display from Oct 14th, 2023 – Mar 25th, 2024 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, showcasing 12 new acquisitions to their collection that tell the story of the remarkable friendship between Takaezu and Tawney.
On display from Wed 14th Feb—Sun 26th May 2024 at the Barbican in London. This show brings together over 100 artworks to examine the ways in which artists have embraced textiles to communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center worked closely with the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation to acquire hundreds of key components from the artist’s last studio environment in 2019, with assistance from Kohler Foundation, Inc. The 486-piece collection includes artwork, collages, assemblages, furniture, and supplies. An installation of Tawney’s studio environment is on view at the […]
The Milwaukee Film Festival starts Thursday October 15, and this year’s lineup includes the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s short documentary Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. The festival is being held virtually this year, so the 197 selected films will be streaming online October 15-29. The documentary features interviews with collaborators from the Mirror […]
