Parallel Lines: New Textile Masterworks Inspired by Geometry

Woven textiles are inherently geometric. Vertical warp and horizontal weft threads impose a gridded framework that is necessarily linear and two-dimensional. It guides but it also constrains. 

Presented here is a group of newly acquired textile works, all on view for the first time, which bear witness to artistic experiments in color and form that both celebrate and defy this intrinsic geometry.​

Credit: Overview from museum website