May 17th, 2024 — Museums
Topics Covered: Art Institute Chicago, ARTIC, correspondence, Katherine Kuh, postcards
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 […]
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.
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 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.
December 28th, 2017 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: 1982, Artist Box, Cleveland, Cloud Garment, Cloud VI, Ear Pillow, FWM, March 2018, Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation celebrates four decades of innovation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
September 12th, 2017 — Museums, News
Topics Covered: 1961, Agnes Martin, Department of Textile Conservation, Lenore Tawney, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Staten Island Museum, textiles, Tribune
Lenore Tawney’s Triune is a featured object on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Textile Conservation’s Instagram
September 11th, 2017 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: Cooper Hewitt, New York Textile Month, Object of the day, Reflections, Smithsonian Design Museum
Reflections by Lenore Tawney is Cooper Hewitt’s ‘object of the day’ during New York Textile Month!
May 3rd, 2017 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: 2017, Archives of American Art, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Between Land and Sea: Artists of the Coenties Slip, Beyond Craft, Feminist Movement, Florida, Handwritten Letter Art, Houston, Kentucky, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Liminal Focus, London, Louisville, Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, Menil Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Norton Museum of Art, Pen to Paper - Artist's Handwritten Letters from Smithsonian's Archive of American Art, Tate Modern, Texas, textile and drawing, Thread Lines, UK, West Palm Beach
Six 2017 spring exhibitions feature the work of Lenore Tawney.
April 29th, 2015 — Exhibitions, Museums, News
Topics Covered: 1961, 2015, Art in America, Craft and Design, Dark River, DC, Des Moines Art Center, Experimental Fiber Art, Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, ICA Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Iowa, Jenelle Porter, Museum of Arts and Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York, Pathmakers, Pathmakers: Women in Art, Washington
Iconic works by Lenore Tawney are on view in Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present at the Des Moines Art Center and Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
