Lenore tawney

When Lenore Tawney incorporated the LGT Foundation (now doing business as the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation) in 1989, she became part of a small but growing number of artists to establish a foundation. Only a fraction of these artist-endowed foundations were founded by women, and few represented artists working in non-traditional materials. But Tawney, whose broad practice included a variety of media though she was best known as a weaver, was accustomed to being an outlier. The choice to name…

American fibre artist Lenore Tawney is world renowned for her ghostly, ephemeral weavings and tapestries, which emulated the ethereal forces of nature, such as water, translucency and light. From the 1960s onwards she was one of a generation of textile artists including Anni Albers and Sheila Hicks who dissolved the boundaries between textile design and...

‘Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe,’ a four-part exhibition project, showed just how radical the late weaver’s work was.

Lenore Tawney (1907–2007) was an influential figure in the postwar fiber arts movement. With impactful and groundbreaking work that continues to reverberate today, Tawney is known for her monumental sculptural weavings. Her practice also included drawing, collage, and assemblage. Tawney’s life’s work, dating from circa 1946-1997, will be the subject of a concurrent four-exhibition series, ...

Vespers - Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

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Little Spring - Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Mangan on Instagram: "Happy Birthday, Lenore Tawney, born on this date in 1907. “The art of Lenore Tawney is multifaceted—yet all of one piece. A personal, hidden poetry transfuses it, whether the medium is fiber, collage, assemblage, or postcard. And the message, which is always fugitive, hides beneath a flexible technique.” -Katharine Kuh #lenoretawney #lenoretawneyfoundation #weaving #fiberart #collage #collageart #womenartists #katharinekuh"

Waterfall - Lenore G. Tawney Foundation