Lia Cook
Born: 1950, Berkeley, California
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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
12lc Woven Form
rayon, cotton; woven
45Ó x 53Ó 1980
$24,000
Selected permanent 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; Det Danske Kunstindustri-museum, 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; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Transformations: The Language of Craft). Professor: California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland.
Recipient: 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
192Ó x 41Ó
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
62Ó x 49Ó 1988
$18,000
Catalog #33
BEYOND WEAVING:
International ArtTextiles
click for more informationCatalog #2M
Lia Cook:
In the Folds, Early Works 1977-1997
pre order, available Nov 1
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Warnick Collection
September 11, 2007- January 11, 2008
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Design Life Now
September 28, 2007- January 6, 2008
The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art
September 28, 2007- February 17, 2008
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, CCA:
100 Years in the Making
October 13, 2007- March 25, 2008
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, Saturn Returns: Back to the Future of Fiber Art
October 16, 2007- January 6, 2008
Virginia Commomwealth University, Richmond, VA, Familiar Faces
January 18- March 2, 2008
Big Boy With Bear, woven cotton, 14' x 54", 2004
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