Laura Foster Nicholson
My hand-woven tapestry gallery is full of expressions and is the result of examining the infinite and subtle varieties of facial expressions. They have names, though I find that to label an expression is to limit it: human response to facial expressions is intuitive and varies based upon experience. These particular expressions stem from 6 months of listening non-stop to NPR news in a tumultuous year. You may draw your own conclusions. Laura Foster Nicholson is a textile artist known […]
My hand-woven tapestry gallery is full of expressions and is the result of examining the infinite and subtle varieties of facial expressions. They have names, though I find that to label an expression is to limit it: human response to facial expressions is intuitive and varies based upon experience. These particular expressions stem from 6 months of listening non-stop to NPR news in a tumultuous year.
You may draw your own conclusions.
Laura Foster Nicholson is a textile artist known for handwoven tapestries as well as designs for interior textiles. An independent studio artist since 1983, she has continuously produced and exhibited throughout this time.
Her artwork is in museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum/Smithsonian Institution, Archives of the Venice Biennale (Italy), Denver Art Museum, and Racine Art Museum, among others.
Photo Credit: Griffin Norman
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