FIBER ARTS CONNECT THREADS IN NEW ART EXHIBITION AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
(Los Angeles, California – September 18, 2012) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a new exhibition at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) featuring fiber artworks by 19 Southern California artists. Connecting Threads, curated by independent curator and artist Julie Kornblum, presents a range of contemporary fiber artworks made with natural and synthetic fibers. Through their individual artistic practices, the artists use fibers, such as yarn and thread, as the visual medium to create abstract compositions, fashion self-portraits, provide commentary on the human condition, and more. The exhibition is located in the display case on the Upper/Departures Level of Terminal 1 and is on view for ticketed passengers through January 2013.
Connecting Threads features fiber artworks that are both deeply rooted in the past and able to transcend common historical labels, such as “functional art” or “household crafts.” The artists demonstrate how basketry, stitching, and knotting can be applied as sculptural techniques, resulting in deconstructed vessels, while weaving, quilting, crochet, and felting are methods used to create two-dimensional works, such as tapestries that resemble paintings. Artists featured in this exhibition include Fern Tompkins Benson, Charlotte Bird, Ashley Blalock, Emily Dvorin, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Jenne Giles, Julie Kornblum, Brecia Kralovic-Logan, Carol Lang, Michael F. Rhode, Leisa Rich, Cindy Rinne, Connie Rohman, Carmella Karijo Rother, Sandra Rude, Nadine Spier, Merna Strauch, Peggy Wiedemann, and Darlyn Susan Yee.
About Los Angeles World Airports Art Program
Initiated in 1990, the purpose of the LAWA Art Program is to provide opportunities for educational, entertaining, and enriching cultural experiences for the traveling public at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airports and the LAX FlyAway® bus terminal. The program showcases local and regional artists through temporary exhibitions and permanent public art installations, which enhance and humanize the overall travel experience for millions every year.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering more than 600 daily flights to 91 domestic cities and more than 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 58 cities in 32 countries on nearly 75 air carriers. It ranks 13th in the world in air cargo tonnage processed. In 2011, LAX served more than 61 million passengers, processed over 1.8 million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $84.6 billion, and handled 603,912 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
