February 26th, 2025 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
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 […]
December 5th, 2024 — Exhibitions
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.
August 11th, 2024 — Exhibitions
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).
March 9th, 2024 — Exhibitions, News
Topics Covered: Toshiko Takaezu
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.
October 30th, 2023 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: Abstract, Albers Foundation, Andrea Zittel, Hannah Hoch, Jeffrey Gibson, LACMA, Liubov Popova, national gallery of art, Rosemarie Trockel, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, textiles, Ulrike Mueller, Yvonne Koolmatrie
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.
October 29th, 2023 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: Cotton, Ingenuity, intergenerational, Polyester, Silk, Smithsonian, Washington DC, Women, Wool
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.
October 28th, 2023 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: ceramic sculptures, Friendship, Poet, Pottery, stoneware, weaving
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.
October 27th, 2023 — Exhibitions, News
Topics Covered: colonialism, gender, hand-crafted, lived experiences, London, sculptural installations, sexuality, stories, textiles
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.
June 14th, 2022 — Exhibitions, Grants, Museums, News, Studio
Topics Covered: Art Preserve, Installation, John Michael Kohler Art Center
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 […]
October 3rd, 2019 — Exhibitions, News, Studio
Topics Covered: 1957, Aaron Siskind, Cloud Labyrinth, Ephemeral and Eternal, Even Thread Has Speech, George Erlm, In Poetry and Silence, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Lenore Tawney Chicago Studio, Lenore Tawney Monograph, mirror of the universe, Paul J. Smith, The University of Chicago Press
A series of four exhibitions explores Lenore Tawney’s life and impact, offering a personal and historical view into her entire body of work.
October 2nd, 2019 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: 1950-2019, 1974, Four Petaled Flower II, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, Whitney Museum
This exhibition of over eighty works by more than sixty artists foregrounds how visual artists have experimented with the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades.
October 1st, 2019 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: 1982, Art Institute of Chicago, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop, Black Mountain College, Claire Zeisler, Else Regensteiner, Ethel Stein, Sheila Hicks, The Bride Has Entered, The Illinois Institute of Technology, The Institute of Design, Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus, Yale University
Presented on the centenary of this foundational organization, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus traces the diffusion of Bauhaus artists such as Anni Albers and Marli Ehrman, and their reciprocal relationships with fellow artists and students across America.