TEXTILES GALLERY
PACIFIC
I think of these squares as water, but they can be nearly anything: falling rain getting heavier, an aerial map of a city, the side of a skyscraper. I even projected them on a wall for one of minimalist composer Julia Wolfe’s instrumental choruses at Roulette
I think of these squares as water, but they can be nearly anything: falling rain getting heavier, an aerial map of a city, the side of a skyscraper. I even projected them on a wall for one of minimalist composer Julia Wolfe’s instrumental choruses at Roulette
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For the past three decades, Laurie Olinder has made art on the Lower East side of Manhattan- from abstract nature-inspired watercolors and ink drawings, to colassal multi-media theater productions. She pulls from this vast archive for her debut textile collection, reimagining her original paintings into patterns printed on fabric. Rendered as repeats, Olinder's exhuberant designs become a fantastical eden of plants, tenfdrils, blossoms and seeds all of it spiraling through whirling eddies and midnight skies, and thrumming with the vitality of the city that fuels her.
