Kumi Yamashita – Thread, Light and Shadow

Kumi Yamashita is an installation artist born in Japan. She arrived in the United States as a high-school exchange student and currently she lives in Manhattan and works in a tiny studio in Long Island City. She creates portraits and figures that are simultaneously subtle and magical. She transforms simple materials into portraits; some of […]

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Amanda McCavour – Thread Drawings

Amanda McCavour is a textile artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and installation. Amanda uses a sewing machine and water soluble fabric to create these amazing thread drawings and installations. “It seems to be that the possibilities for fibre in contemporary art are […]

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Lisa Kellner – Paintings in Space

Lisa Kellner is an installation artist living and working in Virginia and Brooklyn, NY. She makes large scale, temporary installations that combine intricate microcosms with huge topographies. She paints and sews together thousands of organic, bulbous shapes out of silk organza creating a structure that operates both as a three dimensional painting in space and […]

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Astrid Krogh – Moving with Lights

Astrid Krogh is a professional designer born in 1968 in Strellev, Denmark. She studied at the Design School of Denmark (Textile Department) and the Institute for Product Design. She works with the artistic potentials found in modern materials and new technologies giving them new functional and decorative possibilities to create miraculous forms, lights and colours. […]

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