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Pulling Threads

October 28, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

Abbie Miller explores the history of smocking, creating a sculptural visual language that challenges the limitations of this craft and transforms it into a hanging textile installation.

What happens when a traditional domestic machine used for women’s work is freed from its historical boundaries? Abbie Miller explores the history of smocking, creating a sculptural language that challenges the limitations of this craft and transforms it into a suspended textile installation. Through the use of a twelve inch pleater, she laboriously manipulates large swaths of fabric and in doing so discovers a new way to express the medium. The installation invites the exploration of a colossal three-dimensional textile surface using a technique that is typically limited to small areas of the body.

Pulling Threads is a composition that uses a challenging process to compress then suspend historical and contemporary expressions in order to create a site specific architectural installation. This exhibit is the result of Abbie Miller’s ten month artist residency with GMA architects at the historic North Portland Hazelwood Building.

*Extra parking can be found on N Wheeler, N Dixon and N Ross Blocks & N Williams. They are located 2 blocks North from the Moda Center.




Details

Date:
October 28, 2023
Time:
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Venue

LeftBank Project, GMA Suite
240 N Broadway, GMA Office, Suite 203
Portland, OR 97227 United States
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