Details:

Featuring circuit-like arrangements of interconnected shapes, this weaving showcases the integration of color and pattern that is fundamental to the artist's process.
Framed: 24.0 x 24.0 x 1.8 in.

① Artwork:

Twill Series (Sleet Grey)

Featuring circuit-like arrangements of interconnected shapes, this meticulous weaving showcases the integration of color and pattern that is fundamental to the artist's process. Laskey pays grave attention to the material structure of her weavings, using the painstaking twill method as a brushstroke built into the picture plane. In this work, sections of twill are punctuated by dyes of verified hue. This approach disrupts the monotonous rhythm of what would otherwise be a plain-woven canvas.

Specs:

22 inches
22 inches
with frame
24 inches
24 inches
1.75 inches
24 inches

③ Artist:

Ruth Laskey

Ruth Laskey’s practice is a rich exploration of gesture and the complex relationships between form, color and space. In her textile works, she employs dye, thread and a loom to weave intricate geometric forms that fade in and out of focus. By scrutinizing her materials’ inherent constraints, she produces works that contemplate the definitive nature and construction of the canvas.

BIO:

Ruth Laskey was born in 1975. She earned her BFA in 1999 and her MFA in 2005, both from the California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Exhibitions showing her work have been held at: Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio; Lehman College Art Gallery in New York City; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts; David Zwirner in New York City; James Cohan in New York City; Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery in San Francisco, California; The Approach in London, UK; Misako & Rosen in Tokyo, Japan; and the Oakland Museum of California.

Her work is in the collections of: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California; and The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Ruth Laskey:
Twill Series (Sleet Grey), 2018
Hand-woven and hand-dyed linen
22.0 × 22.0 inches /
Ruth Laskey:
Twill Series (Sleet Grey), 2018
Hand-woven and hand-dyed linen
22.0 × 22.0 inches /