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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.  

ARTIST STATEMENT

  

I am a mixed media artist with a focus in fiber techniques.  Often using iconic imagery, my work is frequently a visceral response to the moral and political landscape of the day. By visually addressing the frayed and unraveled places around me, my work seeks to promote thoughtful dialogue about critical questions as we navigate the difficult times we live in.

SELECTED  EXHIBITIONS  

2022 

  • 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, Blog post 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 Twistshow 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

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