Tapestries for Central Library

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IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR LIBRARY & COMPLETION OF ITS RESTORATION & REOPENING, I DESIGNED FOURTEEN TAPESTRIES DIGITALLY COLLAGED IMAGES & IDEAS FROM THE COLLECTIONS PRINTED ON COTTON (59" X 89" EA.).

B E L O W :
Signs of Progress T A P E S T R Y 1
Images include (clockwise from top left) a detail from the cover of John Maeda's "Laws of Simplicity", an old highway plan, Ernest Withers' photograph of Rosa Parks (at the front of her bus), Robert Arteaga's photograph of the Gateway Arch
near completion, Lewis Hines' 1912 photograph (of an 11-year-old mill worker in North Carolina), and the WPA poster
"Sew for Victory".

B E L O W :

Images include the Stature of Liberty, Blind Justice, 3 Indian women & an African woman from "Ethnic Style" by

B. Geoffroy-Schneiter, an advertising layout by Bradbury Thompson, and Norman Rockwell's 1963 painting, "The Problem We All Live With" (depicting Ruby Bridges being escorted into her newly desegregated school in New Orleans).

B E L O W :
Patterns of Communcation T A P E S T R Y 3
Images include (counter-clockwise from top) a Cuniform tablet, a photo of Ant Farm's sculpture, "Cadillac Ranch",

a page of Braille, a detail from the cover of Jay Z's book, "Decoded", a diagram of alphabet hand-signing, dance steps,

and very faint paw prints.

B E L O W :
Fine Arts Room T A P E S T R I E S 13 & 14
The tapestry at left "Cuts of Cloth" includes images of victorian lace, a Josie Webb quilt, Christo & Jeanne-Claude's

"Gates" sculpture in Central Park, and a detail from Francisco de Zurbaren's 1628 painting of Saint Serapion.

At right, "Henri & Betty" includes a painting by Matisse, a mixed media panel by Jean Arp, and Gerhard Richter's

photo painting of his daughter, Betty.

B E L O W :
Girls With and Without Pearl Earring T A P E S T R Y 8
An 18th-century botanical illustration of insects & thistles, a classical African terra cotta bust,
Helen Frankenthaler's "Southern Exposure" and Vermeer's "Girl...".