22lc TRANSLUCENCE rayon 56" x 40", 1978 $35,000

 

21lc CHINA MAZE DOLL woven cotton, rayon 72" x 51" 183cm x 129.5cm 2008 $22,000

 

8lc Material Pleasures: Leonard I , acrylic on linen, dyes on rayon; woven, 53" x 77" 1993, $22,000

 

1lc BINARY TRACES: DREAM GIRL cotton 57" x 48" 144.75 x 122 cm, 2004 $16,000

 

2lc SPATIAL IKAT II wool, cotton 10' x 8.5', 1977 $75,000

 

Selected collections and exhibition venues: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Danish Musuem of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark; French National Collection of Art, Paris, France; De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Renwick Gallery, National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Lia Cook: Material Allusions – traveling exhibition); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (From Lausanne to Beijing, International Fiber Art Biennial); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Transformations: The Language of Craft); Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska (Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes, traveling, solo exhibition); University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (The Embedded Portrait, solo exhibition). Recipient: Gold Medal: 5th International Fiber Art Biennial; Award, Flintridge Foundation; Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts; Fellowship, California Council for the Arts. 15lc detail PRESENCE/ABSENCE: IN THE FOLDS cotton, rayon; woven 192" x 41" 1997 $30,000

 

Statement: My current practice incorporates concepts of cloth, touch, and memory. I use the detail, an intimate moment in time, often woven in oversize scale to intensify a shared emotional and sensual experience. I use a digital loom to weave images that are embedded in the structure of cloth. The digital pixel becomes a thread that when interlaced with another becomes both cloth and image at the same time. This woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences that we associate with cloth. Childhood family snapshot and video stills are some of the raw materials that I draw on to investigate small, intimate details of the body or to capture a fleeting human expression My practice involves research into new technologies and new ways to translate my images that make the structure visible and physically felt, attempting to create the image as physical object.                                                            Lia Cook 4lc CRAZY QUILT: Royal Remnants acrylic on abaca, dyes on rayon; woven 62" x 49" 1988 $18,000

 

Catalog #33 BEYOND WEAVING: International ArtTextiles click for more information	Catalog #2M Lia Cook: In the Folds, Early Works 1977-1997 click for more information	Catalog #34 10TH WAVE III: Art Textileand Fiber Sculpture click for more information

 

Book #36 Portfolio Collection: Lia Cook click for more information

 

Lia Cook: The Embedded Portrait The University of Wyoming Art Museum, May 23 - August 22, 2009 Chicago and East Galleries. UW Art Museum, 2111 Willett Drive, Laramie, WY 82071, (307) 766-6622

 

Lia Cook's work A-Maze Doll, was awarded a Gold Medal at the 5th International Fiber Art Biennale in Beijing, China in December 2008. The exhibition, From Lausanne to Beijing, was held at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. The work will be included in the traveling exhibition of Cook's work, Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes, which opens in March 2009. A-maze Doll woven cotton & rayon 80 x 53" 2008

 

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