Traces: Big Beach Baby

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Object Details

Artist

Lia Cook, born Ventura, CA 1942

Exhibition Label

To create her expressive "woven paintings," Lia Cook paints strips of fabric and weaves them together with a computer-aided handloom. Despite the use of high-tech tools, her figures appear lifelike, emphasizing the connection between the sensuousness of cloth and lived experience. In Traces: Big Beach Baby, Cook also uses fabric to suggest humankind's vulnerability and fragility: as the viewer moves closer to the work, an intimate family portrait dissolves into a dense field of threads.

Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance in honor of Kenneth R. Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery (1995--2003)

Copyright

Date

2001

Object number

2004.2

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Decorative Arts-Fiber

Crafts

Medium

cotton

Dimensions

160 x 56 in. (406.4 x 142.2 cm)

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Department

Renwick Gallery

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Landscape\beach

Figure\child\bust

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk790f0f974-4f81-4344-85c3-52fcf1dc4f75

Record ID

saam_2004.2