Christy Matson

"Working within a broad and renewed interest in craft practices, Los Angeles-based artist Christy Matson (American, b. 1979) creates woven pictures that explore memory and imagination through the layered history of textile production, while advocating for issues surrounding sustainability. A continuation of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Currents series, which highlights new trends in contemporary art, this publication calls attention to the rise of fiber art and celebrates Matson as a contemporary artist. Bringing together nearly fifty of Matson's most recent works from the last five years, this is the first publication to explore the artist's wide-ranging textile practice"--