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In a Patterned Menagerie, Artist Anne Lemanski Stitches Printed Papers into Animal Forms

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Beginning with a copper armature, the North Carolina-based artist stretches vintage paper or patterns of scanned objects across a minimal metal form and stitches the edges together into a geometric patchwork. “Jackrabbit” (2015), pigment print on paper, copper rod, 27 1/2 x 26 x 9 inches. via Women’s Art ).

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DDW23: Kazerne Is Intertwining Hope and Design

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Kazerne is a 2,500-square-meter combined meeting, exhibition, and hospitality space housed in a former military police barracks (and adjoining warehouses) dating back to the early 19th century. The three-dimensional form was created using an intricate pattern cut into flat felt with no waste.

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An Expansive Exhibition Pairs Two Indigenous Artists to Explore the Power of Socially Engaged Artmaking

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The expansive exhibition—featuring 26 mixed-media sculptures, installations, and wall hangings—joins two of the leading Indigenous artists working today in a manner that distinguishes both the connective threads and nuances within their bodies of work. Find out more about Luger and Watt on their sites. Image © Marie Watt.

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Tali Weinberg Entwines Human and Ecological Health with Climate Data Sculptures

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These twisting, interlaced qualities ground much of Tali Weinberg ’s fiber-based work as she pulls at the individual threads of our changing climate, using abstract weavings and textile sculptures to explore the inextricable nature of the crisis and the necessity for human intervention. data that corresponds to the thread colors.

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Repurposed Stained Glass Comprises a Disorienting Illuminated Greenhouse by Heywood & Condie

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Titled “Sacré blur,” the greenhouse is a 2015 project by horticultural artists Tony Heywood and Alison Condie, who originally created the piece to house psychedelic plants at the Oxford Botanic Gardens —this part of the project never materialized over fears that students might misuse the hallucinatory specimens.

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Speckled with Light, Glowing Glass Sculptures React to Viewers with Shifts in Brightness

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Approach the delicate glass artworks by Rui Sasaki , and witness the unpredictable patterns of the weather through a subtle glow of blue light. Many of the sculptures evoke organic elements in material, concept, and sometimes form, whether shaped into swollen raindrops or a sun-like orb. All images © Rui Sasaki, shared with permission.

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Inscribed Lace Patterns Defy Expectations in Cal Lane’s Plasma-Cut Steel Tools and Industrial Objects

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“I am more interested in the dialog between the object and the image, not so much the lace pattern specifically. Many of the plasma-cut sculptures shown here are part of In Her Space , which is on view through March 3 at C24 Gallery in New York. “Hood” (2015), plasma cut steel, 37 x 63 x 3.5 x 5 inches.