This exhibition creates a framework for a dialogue on the meaning of “transparency” within a Fiber Art context.

How would I define transparency?

I started with the assumption that transparency means anything that is see-through, as in a sheer blouse. But today’s definition is highly contaminated by its use in business: open, clear, no secrets, transparent. This is not what our show is about. In fact, it is just the opposite.

The Fiber Art works in our show merely hint at openness. The light may shine through them, but only to guide us on our quest for understanding. The artists use transparency to pull us into their work, indeed, even making us walk through and around them, before revealing their hidden contextual meanings to us.

Transparency, then, is the tool which takes us from questioning the permanence of antiquity, Mother Nature or written words to reveling in the Eternal Presence; from pondering the human condition to celebrating the glorious colors of the Universe.

View our show and share your definition of transparency with us.

Egg Basket
2008
Organza and thread
3.5 x 9.5 x 9.5”
$1600