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@ Arena 1 Gallery / Santa Monica Art Studios
*one night only
February 4, 2012 from 7-9pm
> > Drawing Now (contemporary drawing salon)
@ Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
March 29 - April 1, 2012
> > Needlework Revolution (workshop)
@ Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
March 31, 2012 2-4pm register
> > 40 under 40: Craft Futures (group show)
@ Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
opens: July 20, 2012 - February 3, 2013 (will tour nationally)
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Solo Exhibitions2011 Vanités Sacrées, Galerie LJ, Paris, France
2010 Study Hall Drawings, Domy Books, Austin, TX2006 Embroidered Works by Jenny Hart, Art Star, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Embroidered Works by Jenny Hart, Paper Boat, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Threading the Line, Big Cat Gallery, NYC
2003 Exquisite Stitches, Yard Dog, Austin, TX
2003 Collected Constructions, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
2002 Sublime Stitching, Yard Dog, Austin, TX
2001 Sight Effects, Independent Art, Cleveland, OH
2000 Beautiful Flood, ManOverBoard.com
1997 Relative Memories, Quad City Arts, Rock Island, IL
1996 Semi-Celestials, The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, KS
1992 Heartlonged and Headstrong, Yako Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1991 Weatherveined, Chicago Actor's Ensemble, Chicago, IL
1990 Starry-eyed and Moon-mouthed, Mimzi III Galleries, Davenport, IA
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2011
Stitch: Modern Embroidery, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE
Monster Show Five, Domy Books, Austin, TX
2010
Sur Le Fil, Musée International d'Art Modeste, Sete, France
Lost At Sea, Gallery Hanahou, NYC
Replanting the Garden, Big Car Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Domestic Animals, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2009
Fils Croisés, Galerie LJ, Paris, France
Over & Under (curator), Yard Dog, Austin, TX
Art Bloc, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Fiber Arctic, Schmancy, Seattle, WA
2008
Crocodile Tears, Giant Robot, New York, NY
Practical to Poetic, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Devotion to Thread, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
2007
Hot Craft, Sesame Gallery, London, UK
Porch Show, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Material Matters, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Stitches, Arkansas Arts Center and Museum, Little Rock, AR
2006
New Embroidery, Contemporary Crafts Museum, Portland, OR
Flaunt, Junc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Girls! Girls! Girls!, MF Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Werewolf Bongo Party, DVA Gallery, Chicago, IL
American Muscle, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Extra / Ordinary, Cube Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Stitch and Swallow, Here Gallery, Bristol, UKSome Birds, Yard Dog, Austin, TX
2004
Girlie Fun Show, Seattle Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Pins and Needles, Camp Fig, Austin, TX
Pinup, The Hat Factory, Chicago, IL
The Dress Up Show, Ohskin Events, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Inside of Inside / The Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
The Haunted Doll House, Copro Nason Gallery, Culver City, CA
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (annual showcase), Chicago, IL
2002
Kreepy Krafts, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
Summer Sweets, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001
Art Scene II, Artists' Coalition of Austin, Austin, TX
Recipient, Juror's Prize1991
Davenport Regional Showcase, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
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PRESS
Selected Magazines / NewspapersLos Angeles Times (US), 2011
Veine (France), 2011
Stella (Denmark), 2010Print Magazine (US), 2009
Madame Figaro | Le Figaro (France), 2009
Vogue (Italy), 2009
Lamono (Spain), 2008
DeFish (Belgium), 2007
Spin (US), 2007
Vogue (UK), 2007
The New York Times Magazine, 2007 and 2009
Nylon (Japan), 2006
Fiber Arts (US), 2006
Juxtapoz (US), 2003 and 2007
Etapes (France), 2005
Celeste (Mexico), 2005
Atypica (Argentina), 2004
The Village Voice (US), 2004
Frankfurter Rundschau, (Germany), 2003
Paper (US), 2003
Embroidery (UK), 2003 and 2007
Nylon (US), 2003
The Face (UK), 2003
The Wall Street Journal (US), 2003
Gulliver (Italy), 2002
Dazed and Confused (UK), 2002
Selected Books
Indie Craft (2010, Laurence King)
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design (2008, Princeton Architectural Press), Faythe Levine
Illustration: Play 1 (2007, Victionary)
Selected Online Interviews
My Love For You Is a Stampede of Horses
Crit: The School of Visual Arts NYC Graduate Design Blog
The Austin Chronicle - Review of Solo Show "Study Hall Drawings"
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BIO
photo by Aubrey Edwards for JuxtapozJenny Hart was born in 1972 in Iowa City and raised in rural Illinois. She is best known for her artwork in hand embroidery and her design company Sublime Stitching. Hart’s work has been published in numerous books and magazines including Vogue, Nylon, Spin, The Face, Juxtapoz, The New York Times Magazine and others. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, Paris, London and New York. In 2012 her embroidery will be included in a 40-year retrospective group show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery. Hart's work is in multiple public and private collections of note, including the estate of Elizabeth Taylor. She is also an award-winning author of eight titles on embroidery for Chronicle Books.
Jenny Hart has lived in Kansas, France and Texas. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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- Jan 19, 12
photo : Kenneth B. Gall
The Fowler Museum of Art at UCLA has invited me to teach an embroidery workshop in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition: Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women. Please come not just to learn embroidery, but to learn about the incredible work of this Italian conceptual artist and his collaboration with Afghan needleworkers.
Visit Needlework Revolution: Embroidery Workshop with Jenny Hart for full details and to sign up (seats are limited to twenty).
- Dec 09, 11Fawn by Frédérique Morrel
Wonderful. Animals with salvaged needlepoint hides by Frédérique Morrel. Some of her work is currently on display in the windows at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC.
Also making creative re-use of the abundance of needlepoint is Lindsten Form Studio:
Embroidery Chairs by Lindsten Form StudioIf you're wondering: Is this embroidery, needlepoint or tapestry? I explain here. - Dec 06, 11My work and an accompanying interview are in the current issue of Veine Magazine (France). This is an online magazine that also features work by Iris Van Herpen, Kimiko Yoshida, Bartholot and Kate MccGuire. Interviews are in French and English. (I didn't realize my interview in French was going to be translated back into English, which made for an interesting read.)
Also, this micro interview for X/I - Ten Words One Shot (Germany). - Nov 18, 11
- Oct 19, 11Sampler in graphite by Eric Beltz. Wonderful. Eric's bio says he teaches the "lost art of drawing" at UCSB and his most recent work recreates the look of a cross-stitched samplers. I really like that he's not drawing the stitches themselves but pixel-like boxes of varying shades.
This work is part of an upcoming group show:Recrafting History
history, nostalgia & craft in the
American Memory
curated by Ellen Caldwell
Eric Beltz – Jen Pack – Karen Spector
Frohawk Two Feathers – Stephanie Washburn
October 29 - December 22, 2011
@ Taylor de Cordoba(Thank you Ellen, for the invite to this show!) - Oct 19, 11Here's a link to the livestream video of my keynote talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for Hello Etsy on September 18th. The opening keynote earlier that day was given by Dr. John Maeda, artist and President of RISD. His talk was fascinating.
- Sep 22, 11Fellow embroiderer and French artist Full Mano has a show opening tonight at the Krash Bar in Paris. Of course -just a week after I left. Bien que ce soit un cruise bar, j'y aurais allée bien volontiers! Bon vernissage et bisous!
Full Mano on Facebook
Previously on EAA:
Full Mano - Sur le Fil
Full Mano - Encore - Sep 21, 11"Twin Spirits"#1 (2002)
4ft x 10ft (each)
charcoal on paperThis past weekend, I spoke at Hello Etsy's satellite event in Washington D.C. at The Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery.
When I had a moment to slip away, I walked through the permanent collection and also checked out the current exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter. I was absolutely blown away by the monumental work of Hong Chung Zhang. - Sep 20, 11
My first solo show in Paris, Vanités Sacrées, opened at Galerie LJ on September 1st along with a concurrently running solo show by Korean artist, Eun-Mi Oh.(photo via Art In The Box)
Her prints (which were all series of one) were my favorites.I only managed to click off a few photos before the evening turned into a blur. My favorite part was having an elderly couple from Spain corner me for an impassioned discussion about Mormon hairstyles:
About the work (from the gallery’s website):"Show me how you wear your hair, and I will tell you to whom you pray."
All drawings can be seen online here. Contact Adeline Jeudy info@galerielj.com for more information. Remaining works will go on to the Drawing Now salon at the Louvre in spring 2012.
Twenty graphite and colored pencil drawings by Jenny Hart. These works depict “subjects that cover their heads or fashion their hair for religious reasons. Specifically not when only done as decoration for special religious ceremonies, but when worn as part of daily life and every day dress.” Braids, wigs, veils, chador, sheitel, curled sideburns and a non-exhaustive variety of religious stylings reflect a curiosity by the artist for the subject, without criticism or judgement. Fascinated by the different techniques of embroidery, the other principal medium of Hart’s work, she says she loves to draw embroidery stitches and is equally fascinated with their execution as they parallel the knotting, weaving and embellishment that hair can also take on.Vanités Sacrées (solo show)
@ Galerie LJ, Paris, France
opens: Sept 1 until *Oct 18 2011
*the exhibition will be closed Sept 27 - Oct 10
for private functions during Paris fashion week - Aug 19, 11
This past month, blogging on Embroidery As Art took a back seat while I finalized the move of Sublime Stitching (and the setup of my studio) to Los Angeles. Things are settling in and I'm glad to get back to creative work. Here's a preview from the twenty drawings I've been working on for over a year.
This series of drawings are for a solo show at Galerie LJ in Paris that opens September 1. (Once the show opens, all drawings will be viewable online and I'll disclose the theme and subject then.) For now, just a preview while I enjoy a brief break between major projects. - Jun 22, 11Found objects, trash, ephemera, discarded receipts, cardboard boxes...embroidered, embellished and made precious by Nicola Ginzel.
(Thanks, Becky!) - Jun 07, 11STOLEN WORK
Two of my most recent works (St. John the Baptist and Lou Reed as Christ) were stolen from The Drake Hotel in Toronto following the close of the exhibition Wrap Your Head Around This. Attempts to retrieve the works have been fruitless, so I am now posting about it. Please share this blog post to spread awareness that if these works surface, they were stolen.The return of these works will be welcomed with no questions asked.
Email: jenny [ at ] jennyhart.net - May 10, 11
The last time I contacted Richard Saja the response was something like "Can't talk now. Working on new line of fabric." That was exciting to hear, so I hung back, waiting to find out what he was working on.
The first time I came across Richard's work was in 2005 at The Future Perfect in Brooklyn. Their successful collaboration continues, and I found out today that he is releasing his new fabric line this weekend:Sideshow! Toile - Embroidered & Sideshow! - Woven. Congratulations, Richard!Debut of Richard Saja's SIDESHOW! Toile
@ The Future Perfect
55 Great Jones Street, NYC
ICFF Opening Party
Saturday, May 14th, 7-10pm - Apr 28, 11The embroidery work of artist Stephen Sollins is new to me. He works in numerous media, but I missed seeing this series of needlework when it was exhibited in 2003. Sollins "unworked" cross-stitch samplers, and then re-worked the ground fabric in the same number of stitches and colors as the original composition (a ghostly outline remains), reducing the work down to condensed blocks of color.
found via dearada - Apr 21, 11
A reader sent in a link to work by Inge Jacobsen. I especially love that she includes images of the backs of her work (click the images above to see in larger detail). Cross-stitching over existing photographs gives the work a depth that the stitching alone wouldn't convey. I love the look it gives, which is very similar to those by Cécile Jarsaillon who works in a similar fashion, to great effect.
Inge is a student in her final year of studying Fine Art Photography at Kingston University, London and her principle focus is on photography. However, she's recently turned to stitching over magazine advertisements and covers. From her statement:The work I am currently making is an intervention into found images through embroidery, cutting, and collaging. The images I use are from women’s high fashion magazines and pornographic images found on the internet. These make up the basis of most of my work although I am starting to explore newspaper imagery as well. My main concern as an artist is how one responds to the mass of imagery in the world. Altering these is central to a lot of my work.
Her blog entries offer some insight into her thoughts (and misgivings) about stitching over photos that are interesting.
Link (Thanks, Alexandra!)
Also see:
Lauren DiCioccio
Cécile Jarsaillon
Maurizio Anzeri - Apr 16, 11
- Apr 02, 11Jennifer Hunhold recently sent in an email to let me know that she's curating a show at Collar Works Gallery and has posted a call for entries on her website. But, I spent most of my time looking at her own work, which I really enjoyed. Especially this piece above, along with her other very delicate and ephemeral works such as embroidering on leaves or delicate facial tissue:
- Mar 26, 11hand embroidery and sequins on cotton, 18" x 20" - click to enlarge
This past week, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum announced the selection of artists for an exhibition honoring the upcoming anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, which opened in 1972.40 under 40: Craft Futures
July 20, 2012 - February 3, 201340 under 40: Craft Futures is is presented in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery. Nicholas R. Bell, curator at the museum’s Renwick Gallery, selected the artists and is organizing the exhibition. The museum intends to acquire works by every artist in the exhibition for the permanent collection to mark the anniversary. The artists included in the exhibition originate from every region of the United States and five countries.
Selected Artists:The exhibition investigates evolving notions of craft within traditional media such as ceramics and metalwork, as well as in fields as varied as sculpture, industrial design, installation art, fashion design, sustainable manufacturing, and mathematics. The range of disciplines represented illustrates new avenues for the handmade in contemporary culture.
The exhibition will tour nationally after it closes in Washington, D.C. A catalogue is forthcoming.
Vivian Beer, b. 1977
Melanie Bilenker, b. 1978
Jeffrey Clancy, b. 1976
Dave Cole, b. 1975
Cristina Córdova , b. 1976
Gabriel Craig, b. 1983
Jennifer Crupi, b. 1973
Erik Demaine, b. 1981
Joshua DeMonte, b. 1984
Brian Dettmer, b. 1974
Nick Dong, b. 1973
Joseph Foster Ellis, b. 1984
Jeff Garner, b. 1978
Theaster Gates, b. 1975
Sabrina Gschwandtner, b. 1977
Jenny Hart, b. 1972
Sergey Jivetin, b. 1977
Lauren Kalman, b. 1980
Lara Knutson, b. 1974
Stephanie Liner, b. 1978
Marc Maiorana, b. 1978
Sebastian Martorana, b. 1981
Christy Matson, b. 1979
Cat Mazza, b. 1977
Daniel Michalik, b. 1972
Matt Moulthrop, b. 1977
Christy Oates, b. 1980
Olek, b. 1978
Andy Paiko, b. 1977
Mia Pearlman, b. 1974
Lacey Jane Roberts, b. 1980
Laurel Roth, b. 1973
Shawn Smith, b. 1972
Jen Stark, b. 1983
Matthew Szösz, b. 1974
Uhuru (Jason Horvath, b. 1978 and William Hilgendorf, b. 1979)
Jamin Uticone, b. 1975
Anna Von Mertens, b. 1973
Stacey Lee Webber, b. 1982
Bohyun Yoon, b. 1976
I have long admired the work of many of the artists included, especially Melanie Bilenker, Dave Cole, and Olek. I'm thrilled beyond belief to be included. The work I'm unfamiliar with is a joy to explore and I'll be blogging more about those artists and information related to the exhibition as it approaches.
More information on the show
Slideshow of examples of work by each artist - Mar 24, 11Johnny Mumbles by Penny NickelsLink
Hand-worked lace - 9" x 11"Hand-worked lace amazes me. I love Penny's portrait of her brother. I love his beard. I love his gaze. He looks like a mountain.
On D+R: Lace Fence - Mar 23, 11I need to do about a drawing a week. Here's a detail of the latest one for my show in September at Galerie LJ. All of the portraits I'm doing (around twenty in all) are depictions of religious hairstyles or headdress.
- Mar 22, 11
- Mar 11, 11Mary Jo Matsumoto is debuting a collection of art-inspired dresses at at The Stephen Cohen Gallery on Thursday, March 17, from 6-9pm during LA Fashion Week. She designed this dress with fabric printed from Orly Cogan's art piece titled "Searching For My Prince". I don't know what other artist-inspired works are included in her collection, but I'm intrigued.
- Mar 06, 11
