Embroidery by Buenos Aires artist Jazmin Berakha via wolf eyebrows. What’s amazing to me about embroidered art (and other media with craft roots) is when it is so technically and visually complex (like Berakha’s) that it is easily mistaken for painting. It’s important to recognize that artists like Berakha could easily tell their stories in pencil or paint but instead choose the much more pain-staking, time-consuming path of embroidery with all it’s history and connotation.
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The artist has a show opening tomorrow at Heskin Contemporary Gallery in NYC with Nicola Ginzel, another artist working in needlepoint.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Janna // May 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm
love this artist!! What awesome depictions of textiles.
2 Seth // May 25, 2011 at 7:41 pm
I love the designs great embroidery art
3 Kate // May 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm
isn’t it? i think i’m going to have to check this show out in person.
4 Emily // May 26, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Wow, so unique!I love this so much!
5 annamaria potamiti // May 29, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Fabuluous work- Thanks for the introduction Kate- Did you actually see it in person? How was it?X
6 Kate // May 31, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Hi Annamaria,
I did make it to the opening and the work was beautiful and truly impressive in its craftsmanship.
7 Jazmín Berakha « Past, Current, Upcoming // Jun 13, 2011 at 8:22 pm
[…] off with something lovely: the embroidery work of Argentinian artist Jazmín Berakha, found via arthound.net. I can’t imagine the hours it takes to piece together hundreds (maybe thousands?!) of tiny […]
8 sunny // Jun 16, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Speechless, These are simply amazing!
9 ruby // Jun 16, 2011 at 8:47 pm
“pain-staking?”
10 May Yow // Jun 17, 2011 at 1:01 am
Wow…. this is awesome work!!!
Wish I have such great skills…….
11 May Yow // Jun 17, 2011 at 1:02 am
Wow… this is awesome work!!!
Wish I have such great skills…….
12 Bozena // Jun 17, 2011 at 2:06 am
I looove it!
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