About

ABOUT

A contemporary fiber artist with a political focus, Adrienne Sloane has deeply explored all forms of sculptural knit structures out of her Lexington, Massachusetts studio. Her work has often addressed timely but universal issues while remaining mindful of the rich historical context of her medium. Sloane has exhibited and taught internationally and worked with indigenous knitters on economic development projects in Bolivia and Peru. Broadening her artistic toolbox, Sloane's current work incorporates fiber in mixed media work.

Sloane’s work has won many awards and has been published in magazines and books including Fiber Art Now, the Surface Design Journal, The Culture of Knitting; Textiles, The Art of Mankind and Knitting Art. Sloane has work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fuller Craft Museum, the Goldstein Museum of Design, The Kamm Collection and The American Textile History Museum as well as private collections.

"Adrienne's work takes us to the heart of the matter, encouraging a full-frontal view, while amplifying and celebrating our deep and fragile humanness with the truth of our current national landscape."

Paula Estey, PEG Center for Art & Activism

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"Sloane’s is the kind of symbolic artwork—playful but profound, and both timeless and frighteningly of-the-moment—that reaches beyond the screaming partisan headlines and T-shirts and decals. In a room full of noise, it finds the signal."

John Thomason, Boca Magazine

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

Hard Times, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA, Panelist: January 29
Forecast//Recast, Surface Design Association members show, online
Labor of Life: Textiles & Fibers, Arlington Center for the Arts, MA
Through These Eyes: Patriotism in America, PEG Gallery, Newburyport, MA
100: Marking the Attleboro Art Museum’s Centennial Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA

2022

ROOTS at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 East Harlem, NYC The Textile Study Group of NY2022
Message to America Materials Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Center, Denton, TX
Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA April 24, 2021 - April 24, 2022 Showing Fated Glory from the Fuller's permanent collection, catalogue
PeaceWork, solo show: Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, MA Boston Globe Review 8/2/2022
Truth to Power won Award for Excellence in Installation as part of Excellence In Fibers VII and is featured the Spring 2022 issue of Fiber Art Now. Work profiled in the summer issue.
At The End of My Rope at FiberArt International, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3-Aug 20, 2022, Artist interview April 25, 2022

2021

Out of the Fray: Brown University's Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs online
The Unraveling at Senator Will Brownsberger’s office 319, the MA Statehouse, Feb 10, 2020 - March 31, 2021 Extended for a year through the Quarantine. Public unraveling February 18th, 2020 3-5PM
Mixing it Up! Maine Jewish Museum, Portland ME, Artist interview
International Fiber Arts X showed Missing Pieces, Sebastopol Center for the Arts in CA
All Your Eggs sold from Gallery Twist, COOL, CALM & COLLECTED, Lexington, MA
Week long residency in Fiber at Snow Farm September 7-12.

2020

Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts & Activism,

The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

Bevier Gallery RIT’s College of Art and Design, Rochester NY

Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, VA

2019

New Gallery Concert Series "THE SHOOTING GALLERY" new music composers respond to work in concert, Cambridge, MA
Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA
The Unraveling on special exhibit, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
International Fiber Arts IX, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
GOLD STANDARD of Textile and Fiber Art, TSGNY Westbeth Gallery, NYC
On Edge, Solo Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

2018

The Unraveling on special exhibit, New Bedford Art Museum, MA
International Culture, Art and Society Exibition, Invited Artist, Van Yuzununcu Yil University, Istanbul, Turkey
Crossing Boundaries: Material as Message, invited artist, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

2017

The Unraveling on special exhibit, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
BODY POLITIC, Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA
Small Works: SDA at 40, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland OR

2016

Transgressing Traditions: SDA Contemporary Textiles Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY

2015

Reverse-Face 4, Ayse Taki Art Gallery, Nişantaşı, İstanbul, Turkey
Flight Patterns, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta Airport Exhibition, April 2014- April 2015, online catalog

2014

Game Changers: Fiber Artist Masters and Innovators, Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton MA,
Unraveled, Invited Artist, George Marshall Gallery, York ME
Truth Telling: Art in Search of Social Justice, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA

2013

Spoken Threads: The Art of Craftivism, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Hanging by a Thread; the contemporary fiber work of Adrienne Sloane, Louisville, KY

2012

Reverse Face 2, Nakkas Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Art and the Human Form, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY

2011

Between The Lines, solo show, Slater Mills Gallery, Pawtucket, RI
Primary Structures, Curator, exhibitor, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2011, The Hague, The Netherlands
2010 Fiber Option; Material Explorations, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Metaphoric Fibers, Untamed Knit & Crochet, Juror & exhibitor, The Textile Center, Minn, MN
Materials Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton TX, also 2012

SELECTED MEDIA & REVIEWS

2020

Exposure, SDA Journal p 31 winter 2019/20
Centerfold Artscope Magazine, January-February issue

2019

The Language of Making: Visual Voices from the Textile Study Group of NY The Textile Study Guild of NY, 2019, Kim Svoboda, Editor
‘Crafting Democracy, Fiber Arts and Activism’ Exhibition Catalog published by RIT Press with support from Farash Foundation, 2019

2017

Crafting Understanding: Addressing political Issues Through Stitch, by Betsy Greer, Fiber Art Now, vol 7, issue 1, Fall 2017
Artistry in Fiber: Sculpture, co-authors E. Ashley Rooney & Anne Lee, Schiffer Publishing
Area Review no 32/33, Art, Paix, Engagement SARL Publisher, France p.76
Gavstrik, Danish knitting magazine, p. 2 ,#3 Fall 2017

2016

Yarn Magazine artist profile, Australia, December issue

2014

Fiber optics at Fuller Craft Museum, The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, August 02

2013

Pushing the Knit Medium Beyond the Norm, Insider Louisville, KY July 17
Fiber art addresses environmental, political issues , South Coast Today New Bedford, MA March 9
Above the Din, Cate McQuaid Critic’s Pick, Boston Globe, March 7
Vogue Knitting Magazine profile, Spring/Summer issue

2012

Included in Textiles: The Art of Mankind by Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson, London
Included in The Textile Artist’s Studio Handbook by Ruck & Popovic, Quarry Books
Reengaging with Fiber Hand Eye Magazine online

2011

Between the Lines, Artscope on line review of Slater Mills Solo Exhibit, September 29
Eye Dazzlers Review, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, HGA vol XLII no 2 Spring, p 25

2010

No Rules Knitting Creative Processes, FiberArts Magazine Cutting Edge Issue, Nov/Dec,

2009

The Culture of Knitting by Joanne Turney, Berg Publishers, UK Oct
Needling the Establishment, knitting and politics article author, SDA Journal, summer issue
Protest as an Art Form, profile, Surface Design Journal, by Patricia Malarcher, summer issue
Artist Profile, Get Creative Magazine, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May,

2008

Profiled in Knitting Art: 150 Innovative Works from 18 Contemporary Artists, , by Karen Searle, Voyageur Press
Fiberarts International 2007 review, Surface Design Journal, Spring issue

2007

The Boston Globe, Seeing the Wiring on the Wall, profile, September 2

Public Collections

The American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA

The Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, MA
The Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN

The Kamm Teapot Collection

The Philadelphia Museum of Art