PATTERN IN TAPESTRY

Detail

Kiki Smith's New Show 

Currently at The Neuberger Museum in Purchase NY NY

Three large (ca. 9 x 6 ft.) Jacquard

Tapestries 

titled Earth, Underworld and Sky, which are filled

with Smith’s mystical folk imagery: female and male figures, flora and other fauna, constellations. The velvety texture of the tapestry, Smith says, brings attention to “the preciousness of being on earth.”