OPENING: A SOFT LANDING

Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present A Soft Landing, an exhibition with work by Sophia Belkin, Lou Breininger, Thomas Martinez Pilnik, and Aliyah Salmon. This show brings back four fiber artists that have previously shown at Cleo to celebrate contemporary themes in the textile world. 

Sophia Belkin utilizes embroidery, digital printing on fabric and dye to achieve her kaleidoscope imagery. Inspired by the natural world, Belkin pieces together digitally manipulated images of greenery and flowerscapes with organic line stitching and psychedelic color bleeding to blend lush pieces of an evolved final puzzle. The work is built in equal parts by machine and by hand to achieve a multi-layered and textured form that landscapes a unique aesthetic field of vision with a knowledge of craft across the history of textile work.

With a shared inspiration from nature and a bleeding color scheme, Lou Breininger airbrushes acrylic paint onto carpet…