Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
April 20–September 13, 2025
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is pleased to share that Jeffrey Gibson, Sheila Hicks, and Teresa Lanceta are included in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, on view at The Museum of Modern Art through September 13, 2025.
Textiles touch every aspect of our lives and connect us to history; Woven Histories reveals the links between this art form and abstraction. Incorporating basketry, apparel, and more than a century of other textile works that challenge accepted divisions between fine art and craft, the exhibition broadens the story of abstraction, suggesting that not only ideas but materials—like woven, knotted, and braided fabric—are crucial to its understanding and success.
Spanning the early and mid-twentieth century to the present day, the exhibition brings together over 150 diverse, interdisciplinary objects. Highlighting issues of labor and identity that are intertwined with modern textile production, Woven Histories argues that weaving and textiles are the quintessential link between lived experience and art.
To learn more about Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at MoMA, click here.