Knotted Wind
No Longer Available
Completed
2021
Medium
Handwoven Textile with Cotton and Polyester and Wool (framed)
Dimensions
37" x 28"
Description
My work grows by lingering. Stopping on a daily commute and standing still. Looking longer. Traversing the city through digital photographs, I collect images of the sloppy traces of human activity around industrial spaces. I find inspiration in parking lots, surrounded by birdsong, pausing outside before slipping into a warehouse building for work. Driving past a construction zone glittering with fluorescent traffic cones. Walking down the sidewalk on an incredible day of February sun bursting through the gray of a long winter. Much of my work draws on the objects that shape human movement and stories built from repetitive labor. Through handweaving and printmaking, I enact the same repetitive activity to capture what always feels out of reach: the last seconds of the sun setting against the factory wall, wavering shadows fluttering against the pavement, and the transient space between an open storefront and a shuttered one. The smell of asphalt baking in the summer heat. In a train car, everything blurs into color fields broken by gestural graffiti signatures. I think about movement as a language, and the things left behind as calligraphy. Using both material illusion and abstraction, I weave between the melancholy and humor of a world that is constantly disappearing around us, and a world that must be constantly reimagined.
About this Artist
Hope Wang
Hope Wang is an artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. She is the founding director of LMRM “loom room,” a project space working to broaden accessibility to weaving equipment for fiber artists in Chicago. Through LMRM, Wang develops events and collaborations that emphasize weaving as a contemporary art practice. Wang was also a founding organizer of Chicago Textile Week 2019 and 2021, an exposition of programs connecting textile communities throughout the city. In the studio, her artwork explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. Her practice encompasses painting, prints, photo collages, poetry, and textiles. Most recently in 2023, she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, as well as a Chicago Community Fellowship Fund from the Breakout Foundation. Wang was also a 2021 recipient of the gener8tor Art Accelerator Grant and a 2022 DCASE Chicago recipient of an Individual Artist…
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