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A photo showing two visitors explore an art installation in a gallery. Two umbrellas are installed at the top and further down an armature. Other garments and artworks installed on the floor or wall nearby.

Soft/Cover

Soft/Cover surveys the many surprising ways artists have used fabric and screenprinting to create objects that relate to the body. Explore the relationship of textiles to fashion and architecture through these related products.

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An image of a thin, rectangular book, more tall than it is wide. The cover of the book depicts a variety of colorful fabrics in various patterns.

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An image of a thin, rectangular book, more tall than it is wide. The book is open to show two artworks made of colorful, patterned fabrics.

A Decade Of Pattern: Prints, Patterns and Prototypes

An image of a book cover featuring a colorful pattern by artist Kim MacConnel. The colors that stand out in the design are yellow, green, red, and gold.

A spread of a book where on the left there are two artists discussing an artwork that is laying on a table in a studio, and on the right is the abstract watercolor design the artists are discussing.

An Industrious Art: Innovation in Pattern & Print at The Fabric Workshop

This is an image of a book cover. On the book cover is a photo of an artwork. The artwork is a wearable sculpture, has a hood and two long sleeves, all made of houndstooth patterned fabric. Where the hood and sleeves connect to the body, there is a thick red fabric acting as a border between the hood, the sleeves, and the body. The body of the sculpture is a rectangular shape, is light blue, and has a pattern of circles, all the same size. The circles are outlined with white text and read: "Saddle your dreams before you ride'em." There is a slit in the fabric at about knee-length for legs to emerge from the jacket.

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This is an image of a book concealed in a pink, transparent zip-loc plastic bag. On the book cover is a photo of an artwork. The artwork is a wearable sculpture, has a hood and two long sleeves, all made of houndstooth patterned fabric. Where the hood and sleeves connect to the body, there is a thick red fabric acting as a border between the hood, the sleeves, and the body. The body of the sculpture is a rectangular shape, is light blue, and has a pattern of circles, all the same size. The circles are outlined with white text and read: "Saddle your dreams before you ride'em." There is a slit in the fabric at about knee-length for legs to emerge from the jacket. On the plastic cover in the center of the book is a sticker that reads: "Under penalty of law this tag can only be removed by user Comfort Zone Ellen Lupton Visiting Curator The Fabric Workshop and Museum January 25–April 21 2022 1315 Cherry Street Philadelphia PA 19107 PH 215.568.1111 FX 215.568.8211 www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org Gallery hours: Mon–Fri 9am–6pm Sat Noon–4pm Tours by appt All new material The exhibition program of The Fabric Workshop and Museum is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, LLWW Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Independence Foundation, The Claneil Foundation, philip Morris Companies, Miller-Plummer Foundation, The Barra Foundation, and The Board of Directors and Members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum."

A square, red-orange catalogue cover with a royal-blue checkerboard pattern overlayed. Two hand-drawn butterflies with kissing figures appear on the top-left and bottom-right quadrants, on top of the checkerboard. The top reads "Jonathan Lyndon Chase" and "Big Wash." The bottom reads "2021 Wet Dry, 2021 Clean Soiled" and "The Fabric Workshop and Museum"

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash

An image of boxer shorts against a white background. The shorts are a light orange with pink and brighter orange patterns and brown details and outlines. The print design on the boxers shows line drawn imagery of roses, butterflies, and faces.

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A detail shot of the inside of the shorts, showing the hand-screenprinted tag. The tag reads as follows: "Jonathan Lyndon Chase in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum 2021" the text is framed by a line drawn butterfly silhouette, and the bottom right corner notes the edition number "22/65"

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A tall, rectangular tote bag made of white fabric yardage with a printed pattern of short, gestural, brushstroke-like red dashes.

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A tall, rectangular tote bag made of white fabric yardage with a printed pattern of short, gestural, brushstroke-like blue dashes.

Jun Kaneko x FWM

A person wearing a green sweater is wearing the apron while standing against a grey background. They are holding the apron out to either side, untied to show the print. The print is a loosely drawn, large-scale, abstract pattern with pastel purples, pinks, muted blues, and dark greens on tan, with a black background behind the platter referencing shapes.

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The same person is wearing the apron while standing against a grey background—this time, the apron is cinched around their waist and tied in a knot in the front.

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A series of bun-like shapes with abstracted pastel-colored patterns of circles, cross-hatching, and curved lines. The forms float over an opaque black background.

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A view of a room with three long tables in perspective. On the nearest two tables is a repeated pattern of bun-like shapes with abstracted pastel-colored circles, cross-hatching, and curved lines. The forms float over an opaque black background with white borders..

Betty Woodman x FWM

Platters (yardage)

A lamp sits against a white background. It has four black metal thin legs arranged in a square which go up, and are then wrapped in fabric. The fabric has a horizontal purple stripe at the bottom, a teal stripe above the purple, a yellow stripe above the teal, a red stripe at the top, and two large black dots—one on each side of the lamp visible to the camera..

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Mary Heilmann x FWM

Serape (square lamp)

A thick book standing upright, its pages slightly spreading. The cover features an out-of-focus portrait of a person in blue light with red lipstick. The title at the top reads in serif font, "Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls."

A book spread showing on the left page an older white woman in a minimally designed long-sleeve white dress smiling at the viewer. She appears lit as if on a stage with her shadow behind her. On the right is an extreme close-up with a soft focus of her smiling face at a three-quarter angle,

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Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls

This is an image of a book cover. On the book cover is a The image is of a red three-panel privacy screen (the left panel is cut out of the image so we only see the center and right panels) with strings of green leaves on the center and right panels and on the center panel, a figure of a woman standing as she is completely covered in blue fabric and the only part of her body you can see is her right thigh, right arm and her right hand is touching her head. We also see gold embroidered text which reads "Of Adam's eye." There is a solid black background and to the right of the privacy screen is white text that reads "Carrie Mae Weems The Fabric Workshop/Museum"

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The image is of a two-page spread in a book and there is an image in the center. The image is of a red three-panel privacy screen with green leaves and gold embroidered text. This is an artwork by Carrie Mae Weems. The text describes the work and reads: "The Apple of Adam's Eye This work marks a point of departure for Weems in terms of her use of media which she undertook as part of her residency at The Fabric Workshop/Museum. She worked in collaboration with Mary Anne Friel, who executed the artist's design. Initially, the figure appeared in the round (seen frontally on the face of the central panel, and from behind on the reverse); in Cette œuvre marque un point de départ pour Weems en ce qui con- cerne l'utilisation de moyens explorés au cours de sa résidence au Fabric Workshop/ Museum. Elle a travaillé en collaboration avec Mary Anne Friel, qui a réalisé les dessins de l'artiste. Initialement, le personnage apparais- sait en ronde bosse (vu de devant sur la face du panneau central et de derrière au dos); dans cette version finale, le personnage au dos du panneau a été remplacé par un texte. Des versions this final version, the figure on the back has been replaced with text. Earlier versions linked images plus anciennes associaient des images de pommes et de serpent au texte placé sur le devant des pan- of an apple and snake with the text on the front side panels, but these were later discarded in favor of neaux latéraux, mais elles ont été abandonnées au profit d'un feuillage serpentin qui se déroule serpentine foliage that continues around the figure and on the reverse of the side panels. The autour du personnage et au dos des panneaux latéraux. L'image photographique monochromatique monochromatic photographic image became more sensual as it was saturated with a fiery Chinese red- est devenue plus sensuelle lorsqu'elle a été saturée d'une couleur vive rouge-orangé chinoise pour le orange colored background, the veil in royal blue, and the skin in a bronze hue. Underprinting of gold fond, de bleu royal pour le voile, et d'une teinte de bronze pour la peau. Des impressions sous-jacentes leaves, accidentally arrived at, and overpainting the red background with green and gold foliage à la feuille d'or, obtenues par hasard, et la peinture d'un feuillage vert et or sur le fond rouge offrent offered a rich, glowing resolution. The text, at first intended to be printed, was finally embroidered in un contraste riche et brillant. Le texte, qui devait d'abord être imprimé, a finalement été brodé au fil gold silk thread that added to the sumptuousness of the work. Finally, a printed-fabric covered frame de soie dorée, ajoutant au caractère somptueux de l'œuvre. Pour finir, un premier cadre recouvert de was abandoned in favor of an exposed frame of delicately patterned Australian lacewood. tissu imprimé a été remplacé par un cadre en bois de sycomore australien aux motifs délicats."

Carrie Mae Weems

A photograph of a magenta book with a yellow spine stacked on two other books of the same size but in a light blue and green. The book reads "New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum."

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A photo of a book spread with a full-bleed photograph of artwork by Mel Chin on each page. On the left is a mostly blue picture of a corner of a room with a triangular grid of clouds above. On the right is a mostly green corner of a room with a wave-like texture on the triangular-shaped ceiling above. The edges of the wall and ceiling glow a bright green.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum and MIT Press

New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum