Featured Exhibition Work
Beast
by Polly Barton
2024
Italian silk double ikat, 2 woven panels w/ indigo, pigment and vermillion sumi ink w/ Japanese silk
38 X 68 inches
Inventory ID: # 17205
" Polly Barton: Dialogues with the Beast"
- Artists:
- Polly Barton
Past Show : Jul 5-Aug 7 2024
Chiaroscuro is pleased to present a solo exhibition for Santa Fe based textile artist Polly Barton titled, Dialogues with the Beast, from July 5 – August 3, 2024, with opening public reception with the artist, Friday July 5 from 5-7pm. As a contemporary artist working with textile the exhibition brings together her most recent body of work, with abstract imagery and vibrant color, in large and small scale ikat weavings.
Barton explains:
“These are dialogues in ikat – my chosen medium— intertwining color and threads, giving life to imagery with my desire for color, pattern, texture, movement, and shifts. Ikat has become my embodied language; my way of processing and understanding these turbo-charged times. I take unreachable, unspeakable, intangible thoughts and weave a response in silk, paper and pigments.”
Three images of new work posted below, remainder of new pieces posted shortly before the opening. For all currently available Barton pieces see Artist page section of website.
Exhibition Works
Beast
by Polly Barton
2024
Italian silk double ikat, 2 woven panels w/ indigo, pigment and vermillion sumi ink w/ Japanese silk
38 X 68 inches
Inventory ID: # 17205
Blue
by Polly Barton
2023
Cotton warp, indigo & pigment; silk & Japanese paper weft
40 X 30 inches
Inventory ID: # 17208
Demeter's Embrace
by Polly Barton
2024
Double ikat ,2 woven panels w/ Spun Japanese Shifu linen paper & silk weft.
32 X 32 inches
Inventory ID: # 17206
Indigo at Midnight
by Polly Barton
2023
Silk double ikat w/ inlaid tapestry
16.25 X 16.25 inches
Inventory ID: # 17209
Inland Sea
by Polly Barton
2024
Double ikat w/ silk warp & linen paper weft w/ pigment.
38.5 X 29.50 inches
Inventory ID: # 17207
Sonar
by Polly Barton
2024
Double ikat w/ Spun Japanese Shifu linen paper & silk weft
17.5 X 20 inches
Inventory ID: # 17213
Sunlight into Tissue
by Polly Barton
2024
Double ikat w/ Spun Japanese Shifu linen paper & silk weft
21.50 X 17.50 inches
Inventory ID: # 17211
Threadbare
by Polly Barton
2024
Silk warp ikat w/ pastel; silk & rubber weft tapestry
15 X 9.50 inches
Inventory ID: # 17212
Bally Hoo
by Polly Barton
Handwoven ikat w/ eccentric weft
40 X 38 inches
Inventory ID: # 17067
Indigo Pulse
by Polly Barton
Silk ikat warp & weft, 5 loom width
50 X 81 inches
Inventory ID: # 17068
Dry Bones
by Polly Barton
Handwoven linen shifu warp ikat, gold leaf
31 X 52 inches
Inventory ID: # 17066