Over and under. Back and forth. Turning and pivoting. The hand weaves across, stopping at the edge, considering and executing its next move. The practice of craft and its adjacents exists at these edges, where material bends and furls, expanding and stretching. 

Art hangs off of skeletons – paintings, the stretcher; sculpture, a finely balanced mix of points resisting and interacting with gravity. Weaving, however; weaving hangs off of itself and becomes its own material origin point. It is its own support system. 

Sometimes the transformative possibilities of material and method generate political resistance. Sometimes this resistance is aesthetic. Whatever the generated space, it pushes against and pulls apart dogmatic thinking, offering new orientation points, manifesting its support as it discovers its form. Stretcher bars, pins, frames: these are all launch points for metamorphosis.

The artists presented here blend painterly and weaving practices, but more importantly, each exploits the sculptural and conceptual potential of the support. Their work is an alive entity, inviting us all to take up space by finding our own shape.