About
High Pile: Concepts in Tufting explores tufting beyond its traditional associations with domestic and commercial craft, highlighting the medium’s role within contemporary fine art as a site of experimentation and conceptual inquiry. This exhibition examines tufting as a practice where color is built through fiber density, form emerges through pile structure, and materiality plays a central role in how the work is experienced.
High Pile brings together 20 artists whose work engages tufting as both a physical and expressive language. The works emphasize process while incorporating elements like abstraction and pattern to convey narratives and cultural meaning. Collectively, the exhibition positions tufting as a vital contemporary medium that is tactile, yet conceptually expansive.
Artists
Liv Beret Aanrud
Hacer Acma
Trish Andersen & Michael Porten
Jennifer Banzaca
Vanessa Barragão
Sam Druant
Sylvia Fragoso
Daniel Gardiner
Johannah Herr
Camilla Iliefski
Sachiko Janek
Sylvie Johnson
Caroline Kaufman
Maja Michaelsdotter
Mychaelyn Michalec
Melissa Monroe
Angela Anh Nguyen
Peter Salsman
Shishi San
Nakiesha White