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Artwear : Fashion and Anti-FashionArtwear: Fashion and Anti-fashion is a lively and engaging retrospective look at wearable art as it has grown and changed over the past 35 years.
The exhibition of approximately 100 objects will chart the genre's development from embroidered and crocheted hippie style, to grand, one-of-a-kind woven, knitted, and dyed garments that are equally at home on the body and on the wall, to the more fashion-oriented works of the 1990s.
Curated for the Fine Arts Museums by Melissa Leventon, principal of Curatrix Group Museum Consultants and former Fine Arts Museums Curator of Textiles, Artwear will feature the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The eclectic and provocative display will be augmented by works in public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
Many of the pioneers of the genre live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they will be featured along with artists from elsewhere in the United States, and from Europe and Asia. Mid-way through the span of exhibition, approximately a third of the costumes on display will change in a rotation of the works.
Wearable art--garments made by artists from their own hand-made textiles--sprang from counterculture street fashions of the 1960s.
Its development in its twin centers of the Bay area and New York was influen
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