Contemporary artist Amanda Valdez launches her first show in a New York art museum with an exhibition featuring brilliantly colored, patterned, and textured abstract paintings. Valdez achieves her unique style by cutting, sewing, dying, painting, and embroidering canvas and other cloth.
Featuring more than 20 works, including several that are among the artist’s largest and most recent, Amanda Valdez: Piecework explores the artist’s engagement with abstraction and “women’s work” with fiber. She conjures surprising compositions through thoughtful use of different materials and techniques…