21cht PRINTED & GRINDED - RED LINE/WHITE STRIPES, (#651) printed and ground cloth (raw linen) with leaf and white stone 21" x 21"; 53.5cm. x 53.5cm 1987 and 1990 $2,450

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (Focus on Fiber: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection); St. Louis Museum of Art, Missouri; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland (International Triennial of Tapestry); Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany; Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia; Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (Kohyama and Tanaka: Contemporary Ceramics and Textile Art from Japan); Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbigshire, England (Interface: An Exhibition of International Art Textiles); Bankfield Museum, Halifax, England (TexturalSPACE – traveling exhibition); Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (Structure and Surface: Contemporary Textiles). Recipient: Bronze Medal, 6th International Triennial of Tapestry

40cht 4215 SIENNA W B #215 41cht 4216 SIENNA W B #216 handwoven, ground fabric , (raw linen, ramie) with brick, 12.5” x 6’ each, 1998, $8,000 each

Statement: For me the act of weaving, as the weft threads accumulate one by one, is a representation of time passing away; texture acting as the locus of the present time. Finally, a piece of fabric is the result, the existence of which I regard as the expression of my sensitivity. To be specific, weaving for me should be the process of transforming the weft into accumulated space replacing the vanishing of time. Placing the fabric on the ground, I trace out the ground texture and surface of the fabric. The act of tracing is a transformation of time coherence into space and grinding is the transformation of space coherence into time. The final color of the surface is not so important, more the effect achieved by the application of a certain soil, charcoal or choice of tool which helped translate the texture of the ground more readily into my “canvas.” The true past tense of the verb to grind, “ground,” also implies the earth, which can be used to embed, implant, erode and emboss its own surface into my work.                                                                                                       Chiyoko Tanaka

45cht GRINDED FABRIC-SIX SQUARES CHARCOAL 412, handwoven, ground fabric (raw linen, ramie)-with charcoal, 12.5” x 74”, 1999 $8,000

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