Opening Reception: Thread Lines and Xanti Schawinsky

William J. O'Brien, Untitled, 2013. Felt on felt, six parts each: 23 7/8 19 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
William J. O'Brien, Untitled, 2013. Felt on felt, six parts each: 23 7/8 19 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.

Please join us Thursday, September 18th for the opening reception ofThread Lines andXanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War.

In the Main Gallery and Lab, Thread Lines will highlight the expressive and conceptual possibilities of line, with an emphasis on its making. This group exhibition will disabuse the idea that drawing is simply putting pen to paper, framing it instead as an open-ended act in which lines can be woven, stitched, knit, even embodied. Featuring sixteen contemporary artists who use textile in a variety of formats (embroidery, weaving, collage, and performance).

In the Drawing Room we will host an exhibition of first generation Bauhaus artist Alexander ‘Xanti’ Schawinsky’s prolific oeuvre which encompasses a range of social and political investigations. Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War will focus on Schawinsky’s work on paper from the 1940s. These works, including several “War Heads” and “Theme and Variation on a Face: Walter Gropius” break from the Utopian optimism of the early Bauhaus and its later iterations in the United States.

This event is FREE and open to the public.