June 2021
“Above & Below” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Tucked into an unassuming building in West Adams, Shoshana Wayne Gallery’s new exhibition “Above & Below” unabashedly celebrates the medium of craft. Craft techniques have been on the rise in recent years, as ceramics and weaving—once taboo in the contemporary art gallery—become regular counterparts to painting and sculpture. This exhibition takes craft mediums even further, throwing beading, applique, and felting into the mix. Each work on view is a microcosm of technique and skill, and the beaded works of French…
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Gil Yefman at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
At Shoshana Wayne Gallery in mid-city, Gil Yefman’s bright fiber works are an explosion of color in the gallery, particularly the large knitted work Tumtum, an assemblage of knitted orifices and reproductive organs that swirl together, hanging from the ceiling in a massive orb. Yet, under Yefman’s playful style, covert meaning often points to complex cultural or historical themes. Tumtum, for instance, is a Hebrew word used in Biblical times to refer to a person with ambiguous genitalia—although in modern…
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Terri Friedman at Shoshana Wayne
As a weaver myself, I’ve long been a fan of Terri Friedman’s fearlessness. Her densely patterned weavings are loose, experimental, and unprecious — thick roving abuts thin metallic thread; large slits in her weavings are permitted to sag; fluorescent colors garishly share space with muted ones. And despite all this raucousness, as a painter (who has long explored making paintings without paint), Friedman’s weavings have a composed quality to them. She pushes the boundaries just far enough to hem them…
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