SHEILA KLEIN
FLAGS
2016-2020
Printed Cotton & Chorisera
Stripes, 2019, Printed Cotton & Chorisera, 36″ x 51″

Stars, 2016, Printed Cotton & Chorisera, 36″ x 51″

Othernation, 2020, Printed Cotton & Chorisera, 38″ x 51″

Amber Waves, 2018, Printed Cotton & Chorisera, 36″ x 51″


Imagine the world as built by a woman.


I began the flags after the 2016 election. I needed to remake our flag. I try to erase the way the world has been built, taking bites of it and making it new, making it mine.


I like the slung form, because its soft and elastic, for me its sexy. It's a necklace, a belly a swag, a suspended and draped arrangement.


All the woven works are made on frame looms, one that I made on the wall with pushpins. I wanted to challenge and push the structure of weaving combine it with sewing and capture cloth artifacts between two warps.


I am thinking of an enormous textile world where we are advancing slowly.

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