Temple Waterslide and Marina

Title: Temple Waterslide and Marina
LC Subject: Textile artists Textile crafts Textile fabrics Texture (Art) Textured woven fabrics Tapestry Linen fiber fiber art textile art (visual works) tapestries tapestry (process)
Creator: Fawkes, Judith Poxson, 1941-
Description: This tapestry piece, rendered in blues, greens, and earthtones, depicts what appear to be architectural elevations in relationship to water. J. Poxson Fawkes; Temple Waterslide and Marina; 50 x 72 inches; 1989; linen tapestry Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008) jpfawkes@earthlink.net The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
Location: Lokey Science Complex >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: Streisinger Hall, 1390 Franklin Blvd., Eugene Oregon
Award Date: 1989
Identifier: 1989_uo_sci-complex_09_a01
Item Locator: FAW: 90-43
Accession Number: 1989_uo_sci-complex_09_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Fawkes, Judith Poxson
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 50 x 72 inches
Material: Textile art; Fiber art linen tapestry
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1989 UO Science Complex 1989_uo_sci-complex
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: This project included the construction of a complex of four major science buildings, the construction of a new Museum of Natural History and two smaller architecture studio buildings to replace dislocated facilities, and a remodel of a former science building for Architecture and Allied Arts, which lost about 15,000 net square feet of programmatic space to construction of the new science buildings. The project was completed from 1989-1991. <br><br>An interactive campus map of the University of Oregon may be viewed at: http://map.uoregon.edu/ Streisinger Hall stairway
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: The loom is a tool enabling precise verticals, horizontals and right angles. Using measurements from Roman architecture, I weave invented landscape in axonometric perspective. Several trips to Italy, and looking at landscapes and architecture in Renaissance tapestries has heightened my interest in portraying a woven invention (Fawkes, 1989).