Polly Barton was trained by master weaver Tomohiko Inoue in 1981, in the heart of the religious community of Oomoto in Kameoka, Japan. Barton has been using ikat as the means for expressing her gesture of threads in woven silk drawings and paintings ever since. She weaves on an ancient kimono loom and works primarily in silk, although a few of the pieces in this show use a new Japanese fiber of silk spun around a copper core.
Barton’s new body of work furthers her exploration of the contemporary pictorial possibilities of the ancient dyeing technique known as Ikat.
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Venue: William Siegal Gallery
Address: 540 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Starts: Friday June 24, 2016
Ends: Tuesday July 26, 2016