Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

November 19, 2005

While in Houston we made it over to the Center for Contemporary Craft which was having an exhibition of eight internationally known textile artists. I thought these big long pieces on linen by Ilize Aviks were okay, but when I got closer I was really impressed by how all the embroidery made the work. It was called “Book of Hours: Perfectionism,”, and you have to wonder how many hours all those seed stiches too.

There were several pieces by Joan Schulze that were a combination of toner drawings and machine embroidery on layers of translucent silk organza. The smaller ones were framed: this one is called “Gathering Clouds.”

And of course Nancy Crow was brillant with her color and composition in “Construction 77: Looking for a Reprieve.”

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