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Bio:
Janice Lessman-Moss, received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the University of Michigan. She has exhibited her weavings throughout the United States and internationally. Her work was included in the “3rd , 5th and 6th International Textile Competitions” at the Kyoto Museum in Japan and at the American Craft Museum, “Poetry of the Physical” and “Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection” exhibitions. In 1995 she was a Visiting Artist in Prague, Czech Republic as a fellowship recipient in the Ohio Arts Council International Exchange program. In addition, she has received a number of Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts. Recently she has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Galleria Willa in Lodz, Poland, the Museum of Fine Art and Culture in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and at the Kent State University Museum.
BACKGROUND:
The basic process of weaving has been a primary factor in the development of my ideas in art for more than a decade. The repeat motion of over-under, expose-conceal construction creates a continuous network of interlaced threads. Variations in the ordering of the process determine the visual and haptic dynamics of what becomes a continuous plane of woven fabric. Pattern is a natural extension of this building process, or, architecture of weaving. The woven pattern is an ordered, linear, geometric system of connection, and the structural framework of surface.
STATEMENT:
The circle within the square forms a graphic template for order, exercising a quality of expansion and containment. The resulting compositions of linked patterns represent an accumulation of synchronized actions. They reveal a shifting balance of the intellectual with the intuitive, orchestrated through the generative structures of the tools (computer and loom) in combination with individual sensibility. The final woven object celebrates connection, reaffirming the complexity and richness evident in the interaction of abstract systems.
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