Across_4 - Wall Hangings

Handspun and industrially spun wool; jute, hemp, silk, cotton, and novelty yarns; metallic thread, raffia, twisty ties, wool rug mill ends, cotton piping, plastic tubing; wood and plastic shed bars; wood, plastic, metal, and corrugated cardboard loom bars; metal and knit anchors, tension hooks, and tie downs; images and patterns from Peet's Coffee cup sleeves.
100" x 156" x 96"
2019

Item Across_4

Created by Kira Dominguez Hultgren

As seen in Private Residence, San Francisco, CA

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Kira Dominguez Hultgren

Sausalito, CA

Wescover creator since 2020

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Kira Dominguez Hultgren (b. 1980) is a Bay Area-based textile artist. She studied French postcolonial theory and literature at Princeton University, and performance and fine arts in Río Negro, Argentina. In 2019, Dominguez Hultgren earned a dual-degree MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. Her research interests include material and embodied rhetorics, loom technologies, decolonizing material culture, and analyzing textiles as a performative critique against the visual. Dominguez Hultgren is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, where her second solo show with the gallery, Intrusions, opened in January 2020. She headlined Untitled, ART (SF) as Facebook’s artist-in-residence, and her first solo museum show, I was India: Embroidering Exoticism, is on view at the San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile through July 2020. Currently, she is a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts where she is preparing for upcoming shows at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek and the de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco.

Across_4 - Wall Hangings

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Kira Dominguez Hultgren