Dropping Stitches: Knitting Trends in Contemporary Art

January 19 –March 4, 2011

featuring Stacey Chinn, Carol Hummel, Barbara Hunt, Ellen Mollé, Mark Newport, Lacey Jane Roberts, & the knitters collective In the Loop

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It's just not grandma wielding knitting needles any more, but young hipsters smelling of patchouli, trendy moms lugging toddlers and craft project bags, and patriots knitting hats and socks for our young men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq. There is another constituency working with yarn and two needles: its contemporary artists.

The work represented in Morlan Gallery's current exhibition Dropping Stitches: Knitting Trends in Contemporary Art examines the recent resurgence of knitting by addressing the topics that many in this movement are thinking about: materiality, craftivism, knitting as guerilla art, and knitting as protest model. more>>

Stacey Chinn Dinner, 2010 Yarn, found object	Carol Hummel Cozy, 2007 Knitted yarn, metal	Barbara Hunt Antipersonnel, 2001 Knitted yarn	Ellen Mollé Season Split, 2011 Knitted jute
Mark Newport Argyleman, 2007 Knitted yarn	Lacey Jane Roberts The Master's Tools, 2008 Crank-knit yarn, hand-woven wire, steele poles	In the Loop Collective Sea installation, 2010 Various knitted sea creatures