And viewed in close-up, her tents bring to mind abstract paintings and the fabric collages of Anne Ryan, an artist who well understood the emotional links between home, art and the world.
A graffiti-patterned dress (1984) by Stephen Sprouse overlooks big, puffy ball gowns by Dolce & Gabbana (2008), whose colorful, brush-stroked fabric seems more Abstract Expressionist than anything else.
It is specifically to a man of Solzhenitsyn's religious imagination that one looks for a subtler, far less localized sense of the potential of disinterested evil, of sacrificial, abstract malignity in the human fabric.
Most riveting is Miriam Schapiro's "Fanfare," a vividly hued gestural abstraction from 1958; it reminds you that Ms. Schapiro was an accomplished member of the Cedar Tavern gang before she rejected abstract painting in favor of fabric "femmages".
His output includes, but is hardly limited to, his early Ben-Day dot paintings of news images to scrappy cartoons, paintings on tawdry patterned fabric, and beautiful abstract creations which shunned other art modes.
Patchwork fabric assemblages evoke abstract painting, minimalist sculpture, and handicraft; grotty-pastoral installations of dried weeds are propped in corners; dainty colored-pencil drawings hang on the walls, as does a series of canvases collaged with pages from Ursula K. Le Guin's classic fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea," in which a romantic manchild saves the world.
In Prom Night, his mother and father pose over an abstract background of blue jean fabric, black glitter, and pink paint.
It's a thread picked up by the younger artist Nina Beier, in her abstract "paintings" made with scrunched fabrics (pictured).
Although she also made sculpture out of found objects and boxes, her main art is abstract collage made chiefly with fabrics, perhaps a continuing tribute to her father.
Work color into the space with accessories such as bold geometric throw pillows, abstract artwork, and brightly patterned fabrics.
