Whole and Half Moons
Ethel Stein
2007
- Medium
- Two panels: cotton, satin weave damask; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist
- Dimensions
- 87.7 × 88 cm (34 1/2 × 34 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
black and whitecurvilinear shapescotton (textile)21st Centurycirclesfiber artsquaressatin damask weavingshapesTextilemoonweavinggeometric motif
About
According to Lucy Commoner, author of an insightful essay about Stein, the artist’s “pieces woven with only black-and-white warps and wefts achieve a wide range of gray-scale values through the manipulation of the weave structures.” This is indeed the achievement represented by powerful works such as Whole and Half Moons.
