Jodi Stevens, Artist

http://jodistevensart.com/work/#/undergrowth/

Contemporary fiber art is a vast field populated with artists pushing boundaries beyond what is expected using materials sculpturally and conceptually. Artists working in the field today owe a major debt to those who shifted textile arts to a seriously considered fine art form starting in the 1970s, dubbed the American craft movement. Pioneers such as Sheila Hicks, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold, and Claire Zeisler exploded long-held notions and elevated works made with these materials through sculptural experimentation. This lecture will discuss artists who build on this legacy through their practice as sculptors, employing these materials weighted with radical history. source: https://www.textileswest.org/event-3033780

http://jodistevensart.com/work/#/brevity2/

http://jodistevensart.com/work/#/resting-place/

Deeann Rieves, Aritst

Rising ; machine embroidery, and mixed media on cut wood panel ; 20" X 13"

Her Tattered Covering ; machine embroidery, vintage lace, and mixed media suspended in display frame ; 48" X 35"

machine embroidery, canvas, and mixed media on cut wood panel ; 24" X 26"

Source is the artist's blog. Link here.

Tabitha Kyoko Moses, Artist

More to see on the artist's website. Link here.

Tim Sandy, Artist

Source link here.

Rachel Beckman, Artist

Source link here.

Rebecca Horn, Artist

"Ideas of touch and sensory awareness are explored in this work. Horn has described how wearing these gloves altered her relationship with her surroundings, so that distant objects came within her reach: « the finger gloves are light. I can move them without any effort. Feel, touch, grasp anything, but keeping a certain distance from the objects. The lever-action of the lengthened fingers intensifies the various sense-data of the hand; …I feel me touching, I see me grasping, I control the distance between me and the objects. » Implicit in the work is the idea that touching makes possible an intimacy between our own body and those of others. (2004)" Source is Art Performance.  Link here. 

Drawing in Space

Judy Pfaff, Artist

Judy Pfaff
B. 1946, American Artist
Link here. 

Eva Hesse, Artist

Eva Hessee
b. 1936 Hamburg; d. 1970 New York City
Link here.

Ella Robinson, Artist

Website link here. 

Josh Gurrie, Artist

Link here to see more on artist's website.

Shaun Kardinal, Artist

 Source link here.

Dan Beckemeyer

Annette Messager, Artist

Nancy Spero, Artist

Nancy Spero.  Link here for more. 

Watch video on ART 21 PBS. If link does not work, you can search in  your browser.
Link here. 

Maurizio Anzeri, Artist

"Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own."

Image and text source Saatchi Gallery.  Link here.