May 17, 2013 LTextile at the Philadelphia Art Alliance

RITTENHOUSE  | “L TEXTILE”

ART ALLIANCE.  Friday, Krista Butvydas Bard, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania, hosted the opening exhibition of “L TEXTILE” featuring for the first time in the United States the contemporary work of eight international award-winning Lithuanian textile artists.

Hunt of the Unicorn, 2010-2011, Classic gobelin weaving, linen, wool and silk. Vita Geluniene

Sure you might have to have the oratory skills of Demosthenes to pronounce the names of the Artists but the techniques are fantastic you must stop by for the exhibition of “L TEXTILE” .

Lumiere Squares  |  Sabrina Gschwandtner

Sabrina Gschwandtner’s “Sunshine and Shadow” is very intense you could spend hours trying to decipher  the tiny, incrementally changing images made out of 16mm strips of film that has been retrieved from educational documentaries.

Support for the Philadelphia Art Alliance is provided by the Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Avery Foundation, the Rittenhouse Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Saks Fifth Avenue, and members of the PAA.

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