Lia Cook & Shirazeh Houshiary

On Saturday March 4th I went to hear Lia Cook talk about her work at the nancy margolis gallery on 523 West 25th St NY. She is a weaver who uses photographic imagery in her work and exlores ideas around memory/touch. She also uses jacquard weaving and I was very interested in the parallels between her work and some of the issues as I was looking at surrounding cultural /personal memory in the Jacquard piece I did for Huddersfield Art Gallery.

I also went to see some more work by Shirazeh Houshiary at Lehmann Maupin Gallery after seeing her painting at MoMA the week before. I have only seen her figurative sculptures and was fascinated by the developments she is making into painting and annimation. Her calligraphic marks both evoke and challenge a minimalist aesthetic.