Brigid Berlin, an artist who was part of Andy Warhol’s circle, has a one woman show of her needlepoint from the last decade. Her needlepoint pillows of tabloid covers is one part of the show. I find the covers so bizarre, I thought they weren’t real, but actually they are needlepoint reproductions of real covers.
The series, Breaking News, is tent stitched covers from the New York Post creating a commentary on issues from the past decade. This post shows four of the covers, commenting on Barack Obama and Bill Clinton among others.
The juxtaposition of traditional needlepoint with sharp social commentary is intriguing to me. While I don’t think of needlepoint as a platform for political statement, there’s no doubt in my mind that her work is both. It works as great needlepoint and effective commentary. No matter what you think of it, it is worth viewing.
I wish I lived in NYC to go see it.
The show is at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Booksellers at 50 1/2 East 64th Street in New York City. The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through November 22.
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Brigid is a brilliant conceptualist! However, much praise must also go to Amanda Keep of Woolworks Needlepoint NYC, who painted all the canvases for Brigid. Two extremely talented women!
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