This installation highlights the tactility, versatility and warmth of felt, and is at once ornate and excessive, functional and absurd.
Rolls of felt 6’ wide x 80 yards long in total are turned into an interior environment that pushes the limits of the material and plays with ideas of furnishing and wall covering. The gallery provides the physical frame of the white cube and the conceptual frame of experimentation. The artist uses all of the felt, generating forms as it is unfurled. Felt rolls, felt folds, felt puckers, felt pleats, felt layers, felt cushions, felt finishes, felt screens.
Since 2000, Kathryn Walter has worked almost exclusively with manufactured felts through her company and label FELT, inspired by her family’s history in the felt industry. As artist, designer, director and maker, Walter has created interior commissions for residential, commercial and institutional sites, working with architects and interior designers across North America. She maintains a balance between commercial work and experimental projects that draw on her previous experience in sculpture and installation. FELT unfurled is another in a series of works that explore the range of aesthetic and material properties of felt.
Participants
FELT (Kathryn Walter), Christie ContemporaryAcknowledgements
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