Laurie Lambrecht: Weaving the Unraveled | new tapestries

On view September 23 through October 30 The Drawing Room presents "Weaving the Unraveled: new tapestries by Laurie Lambrecht." The exhibition brings together unique montages of weaving, photography and embroidery, the artistic traditions Lambrecht has mastered and interlaced over four decades.

Born and raised in Bridgehampton, New York Lambrecht maintains her studio practice in her hometown where the coastal landscape and woodland trails continue to inspire her imagery and creativity. The recipient of prestigious artists’ residencies in Europe and the U.S., Lambrecht travels often to seek inspiration from foreign landscapes where she concentrates on new mixed media projects.

In these sumptuous, layered fiber works begun in 2016, Lambrecht embeds color and graphic energy captured in her photography of nature or of modern paintings. She begins with the photograph of lichen on tree bark, or of a painting by Gauguin, which she prints in archival pigments on linen. She then deconstructs the image on linen by cutting it into strips. Weaving these strips on her handloom, she creates a new work of art that holds memory bits of the original palette in the photograph. Often she embroiders the linen weaving, adding more evidence of her hand. In this inventive approach Lambrecht’s original photograph becomes the matrix for newly woven works in fiber.

See below for full press release and selected works.