FRANCESCA CAPONE // think of seashells

On view October 11–November 13, 2018
Opening reception Sunday, October 14 (3–5 p.m.)

Nationale is pleased to announce that Francesca Capone is joining the gallery as a represented artist. This news coincides with Think of Seashells, Capone's second solo show at Nationale. The exhibition will consist of a group of large scale weavings and a poem with an inquiry into sense of place. The tapestries presented are based off of a series of notebook sized woven works made on site in various locations with found materials and comes in tandem with the launch of Capone's most recent book, Woven Places, published by Some Other Books in New York City.

Francesca Capone is a visual artist, writer, and textile designer. Her books Text means Tissue (2017), and Writing in Threads (2015) focus on textile poetics. She has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery in London, LUMA/Westbau in Switzerland, Textile Arts Center in NYC, Nationale in Portland, OR, and 99¢ Plus Gallery in Brooklyn. Capone has been an artist in residence at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Andrea Zittel's A-Z West, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. More of her published work can be found at Gauss PDF, Tunica Magazine, and in The New Concrete from Hayward Press. Her academic work includes lectures and workshops at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Reed College, University of Washington, and Alberta College of Art and Design, among others. This fall, Capone will present Weaving Language at Leeds Beckett University's INSIDE/OUT lecture series, and will be an artist-in-residence at Shandy Hall in York, England, courtesy of the Laurence Sterne Trust.

Image of Francesca Capone: Liam Gillies

PRESS & MORE
Capsule review of the weaving, Night Fog by Luiza Lukova
Saturday Selects, Monica Khemsurov for Sight Unseen
Review by Lindsay Costello for 60 Inch Center

IMAGES

Safety Knot II / Think of Seashells: molded by salt, tumbling destruction, surfaces become smooth and malleable.

Scallop / Newly carved out recesses become vessels, in time you collect, and you build up once more.

Mystery Knot / Vernal birthright, melt of snow and winds of springtime, tumbling saltspray roses on the dunes.

Body Weight / It is me in the faraway place , roots dug up, knots untethered, reaching to take hold.

Found Knots / Think of roots, reaching for water, arm over arm, until there is a tangle.

Safety Knot I / Think of Seashells: a seething secretion of calcium, an object springs into spontaneous & magnificent existence - modular, striated surfaces each line, a period of growth.