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"""Beyond her intricate patterns and sumptuous, threaded surfaces, Anni is also a crucial figure in the story of 20th-century art education.""--Alina Cohen ""Artsy"" ""She created work at the intersection of form and function, utility and art--a blurred distinction rooted in her love of letting the fabrics be her guide, working with the material instead of against it. In this way she was a quiet pioneer, an artist's artist.""--Grace Edquist ""Vanity Fair"" ""The highlight is Albers's recently rediscovered tapestry 'Camino Real'...Ten feet square, it agglutinates irregularly alternating triangles of pink, scarlet and wine into a syncopated pattern that seems to shift and fizzle.""--Jason Farago ""The New York Times"""

Beyond her intricate patterns and sumptuous, threaded surfaces, Anni is also a crucial figure in the story of 20th-century art education. --Alina Cohen Artsy She created work at the intersection of form and function, utility and art--a blurred distinction rooted in her love of letting the fabrics be her guide, working with the material instead of against it. In this way she was a quiet pioneer, an artist's artist. --Grace Edquist Vanity Fair The highlight is Albers's recently rediscovered tapestry 'Camino Real'...Ten feet square, it agglutinates irregularly alternating triangles of pink, scarlet and wine into a syncopated pattern that seems to shift and fizzle. --Jason Farago The New York Times

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Known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs, Anni Albers(1899-1994) is considered one of the most important abstract artists of the twentieth century, as well as an influential designer, printmaker, and educator. Born in Berlin, she studied weaving at the Bauhaus beginning in 1922, eventually joining the faculty in 1929. Her innovative textiles from this period combined avant-garde geometric abstractions with weaving for the first time, creating works that were at once functional and aesthetic. Albers was deeply influenced by pre-Columbian art and textiles, which she encountered on trips to Mexico during her time teaching at Black Mountain College between 1933 and 1949.She went on to employ long-forgotten techniques discovered through her in-depth study and collection of these works, leading eventually to the creation of her pictorial weavings of the 1950s. Brenda Danilowitz is an art historian and chief curator at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on the work of Josef and Anni Albers and has organized exhibitions of their work in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Latin America. T'ai Smith is an associate professor of art history at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The author of Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design (2014), she has lectured internationally on textile media and design in modern art and philosophy.

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