Cost: 10 Description Join LongHouse Reserve this Saturday, June 26 at 5pm for the opening reception of Jack, Larger than Life, an exhibition celebrating the extraordinary life and work of LongHouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen. Honoring Jack s generous, generative spirit, this exhibition is an invitation to open eyes to alternatives. His innovative textiles are presented side by side with his various enthusiasms, the objects of craft and art he assiduously gathered, as well as the clothing he collected and wore. Over 100 objects from the several thousand in LongHouse Reserve s collection are juxtaposed with Jack s pronouncements and videotapes of his interviews. Nearly fifty iconic Larsen textile lengths fill the gallery with color, texture, and pattern, including major commissions such as Leverlin for Lever House, New York s first International Style high rise; Swazi Drapery for the Wolf Trap Theater; and Magnum, with light-reflec
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Textile Designer Lori Weitzner Weaves Her Magic
The New York-based designer and author believes beautiful products have the power to shape our moods
Words by: Matt Dougherty
Textile Designer Lori Weitzner Weaves Her Magic
The New York-based designer and author believes beautiful products have the power to shape our moods
Words by: Matt Dougherty
“My childhood was filled with art,” recalls textile and wallcovering designer Lori Weitzner. “I loved to sketch and paint clothing, because I loved the lines and colors I could create.”
Her early affinity for art led her to Syracuse University, where she intended to pursue a degree in painting, but switched gears to textile design after a professor suggested she might find more success there. “He briefly broke my heart,” says the Scarsdale, New York native, but fortunately, “I fell in love with [textiles] almost immediately.”
Sagarika Sundaram in front of her work Oracle (2020). Photo courtesy the artist.
A first impulse when viewing textile artist Sagarika Sundaram’s works is to want to get close to them, to put your hands all over their varied textures comprised of natural fibers sourced from small farms and growers around the world, including India, Uruguay, and New Zealand. You want to envelop yourself in their thick, tactile fabrics; to disappear into a kind of cocoon.
Sundaram is used to inspiring such reactions. In fact, she says, she likes working on pieces that allow viewers a little quiet space, letting them experience the quality of silence you find when swathed in different kinds of materials.