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What It All Comes Down To, Orly Genger, 2008, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Emily Fisher Landau Size: composition (irreg.): 30 1/16 x 5 3/16" (76.3 x 13.2 cm); sheet: 30 1/8 x 29 3/4" (76.5 x 75.5 cm) Medium: Lithograph

Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it. Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using fiber in their work....

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large scale crochet installation by Ernesto Neto

Jim Drain “drifter” a sculpture from 2018

Congratulations & Celebrations project by Ellen Lesperance, worn here by Jennifer Kabat

sculpture by Josh Faught

public art project by Orly Genger called Hurly Burly from 2016

yarn bombing Los Angeles 2013 project “CAFAM Granny Squared”

Rinema, Orly Genger, 2004, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Emily Fisher Landau Size: sheet: 23 1/8 x 18 1/2" (58.7 x 47 cm) Medium: Lithograph

Introduction, Orly Genger, 2004, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Orly Genger Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Medium: Blind embossment from woodcut on paper