premise
A most mundane household object, the tea towel is used for drying dishes and wiping up kitchen counters. Tea towels were originally used to keep scones or a pot of tea warm, and were also used by the mistress of the house to dry fine china. From these humble origins, artists and designers now reinvent the tea towel, treating its surface as a blank canvas, and sometimes ignoring function altogether. The tea towel has become both collectible kitchen decor and affordable art. This exhibit brings together diverse works by 25 artists and designers from all over the world, using very different approaches to this common object.
The humble tea towel is no longer merely relegated to the tasks of the kitchen. Reinvented, its form offers a unique challenge and serves as a new canvas for artists and designers. This show brings together some of the most exciting contemporary talent worldwide, most exhibiting in Cincinnati for the first time.
participants
The Anticraft | Raellyn Hatter+Zabet Stewart | Lexington, KY, USA
Arian Armstrong | Marblehead, MA, USA
Artgoodies | Lisa Price | Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Atelier LZC | Montreuil, France
Sigrid Calon | Tilburg, the Netherlands
Chris Corneal | Lansing, MI, USA
Cedric Cox | Cincinnati, OH, USA
Creative Thursday | Marisa Haedike | Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fab Crew | Ben Long | Indianapolis, IN, USA
Manifold Design | Karen Lemmert | Baltimore, MD, USA
Mikko Prints | Michelle Kim | San Francisco, CA, USA
Phat Sheep | Suzanne Shearer | Shetland Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nicole Pivirotto | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Push Me Pull You Design | Eleanor Grosch | Philadelphia, PA, USA
Skinny laMinx | Heather Moore | Cape Town, South Africa
AnnCharlotte Tavolacci | Los Angeles, CA, USA
three sheets 2 the wind | Jenny Sauer | Cincinnati, OH, USA
Twisted Twee | Suzi Warren | London, United Kingdom
Unfolding Terrain | Francheska Guerrero | Washington, DC, USA
Variegated Inc. | Corbett Marshall+Jim Deskevich | Catskill, NY, USA
Very Studio | London, United Kingdom
VisuaLingual | Maya Drozdz+Michael Stout | Cincinnati, OH, USA
