Anne Wilson
Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson works in a variety of media, from drawing and sculpture to performance and stop-motion animation, often employing fibers and textiles in untraditional ways. As Wilson states, her work uses "the material processes of handiwork and industry" to investigate broader social and political ideas.
For her project Topologies, first exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Wilson used scraps of black lace to create intricate tabletop arrangements that allude to complex networks, from the structure of the Internet to topographic maps of cities and biological systems. For the more recent project Local Industry, Wilson created a temporary textile factory at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee from February to April 2010, drawing on Tennessee's history as both a major center of industrial textile production in the United States and a region associated with hand weaving traditions. Visitors were invited to assist in the creation of a massive cloth, a process using textiles as a means of exploring issues of labor, community, and the local environment.
Other notable exhibitions of Wilson's work include Cotton: Global Threads at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester UK in 2012, Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft at the …
Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson works in a variety of media, from drawing and sculpture to performance and stop-motion animation, often employing fibers and textiles in untraditional ways. As Wilson states, her work uses "the material processes of handiwork and industry" to investigate broader social and political ideas.
For her project Topologies, first exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Wilson used scraps of black lace to create intricate tabletop arrangements that allude to complex networks, from the structure of the Internet to topographic maps of cities and biological systems. For the more recent project Local Industry, Wilson created a temporary textile factory at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee from February to April 2010, drawing on Tennessee's history as both a major center of industrial textile production in the United States and a region associated with hand weaving traditions. Visitors were invited to assist in the creation of a massive cloth, a process using textiles as a means of exploring issues of labor, community, and the local environment.
Other notable exhibitions of Wilson's work include Cotton: Global Threads at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester UK in 2012, Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2010, Shift: Field of Fluctuation at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa Japan in 2009, Out of the Ordinary at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2007, as well as recent solo shows at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Paul Kotula Projects in Detroit, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
The Illinois Collection of the State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo, California
Randall Fleming and Associates, Architects, Oakland, CA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI