Deborah Kass examines the intersection of art history, popular culture, and the construction of self.  Examining issues of power and identity her work speaks to issues of broad humanist importance.  Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan  Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum NY, The Museum of  Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Orleans Museum, The National Portrait Gallery,  Smithsonian Institute, Fogg/Harvard Museum, as well as other museums and private collections.

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Kass’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The Andy Warhol Museum presented “Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After, Mid Career Retrospective” in 2012, accompanied by a catalogue published by Rizzoli, with essays by Irving Sandler, Griselda Pollack, John Waters and others.Her monumental sculpture OY/YO installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park became an instant icon. It is now at home in front of the Brooklyn Museum.

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Our partners at BravinLee Editions produce limited edition rugs by some of the most compelling contemporary artists working today. They work intimately with artists to translate their visual vocabulary and palette into rich textiles. Made of wool and silk, their rugs are hand-knotted by highly-skilled artisans in Nepal. 

Rashid Johnson's rug is based on his iconic Anxious Man motif and is a meditation on race, class, identity, and the essential human struggle with isolation, meaning, and anxiety.

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Johnson, 48, is one of the most influential voices of his generation and has expanded the cultural conversation around race in America through his art, advocacy, and institutional stewardship.

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His mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Museum opened in Spring 2025.  Titled “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” it included almost 90 works in photography, video, film, mixed-media paintings, sculpture and installation that scaled the entire Guggenheim exhibition space and explored themes of identity, social alienation, and rebirth in ways both political and deeply personal.

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Our partners at BravinLee Editions produce limited edition rugs by some of the most compelling contemporary artists working today. They work intimately with artists to translate their visual vocabulary and palette into rich textiles. Made of wool and silk, their rugs are hand-knotted by highly-skilled artisans in Nepal. 

This classic, black and white hand-tufted wool runner by Anni Albers is adapted from a 1959 runner design and is available in two sizes. The piece features an enticing lattice of loosely woven laces that creates a friendly, energetic design perfect for homes and hallways.

This beautiful hand-tufted, 100% wool rug is adapted from the 1951 oil on masonite painting by Josef Albers. The rug was first available in a limited edition of 150 and then a second edition of 250 was added.  It is produced in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

This work by Gunta Stölzl was originally created on paper at the Bauhaus in the 1920’s.

Stölzl is known for her textiles as well as being the first female master at the Bauhaus, and mentor to Anni Albers.

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Stölzl is arguably the single most influential figure in the modern history of Western woven art. Under her leadership, the school’s weaving workshop was transformed from a neglected department to one of its most successful facilities. During her tenure, she updated the focus from pictorial work to more industrial designs, introducing radical ideas from the world of modern art to weaving, and initiated experiments in materials and methods that helped shift weaving into the modern age.

This beautiful, hand-tufted, 100% wool rug is drawn from the portfolio Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers. The rug is available in a limited edition of 150 and produced in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

This rug comes as a collaboration between poets John Ashbery and Kenneth Goldsmith. It features a fragment of Ashbery’s handwriting (chosen by Goldsmith from middle-of-the-night jottings Ashbery made from his dreams) combined with an image taken from a painting by artist Joan Miró.

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BravinLee Editions produces limited edition rugs by some of the most compelling contemporary artists working today. They work intimately with artists to translate their visual vocabulary and palette into rich textiles. Made of wool and silk, their rugs are hand-knotted by highly-skilled artisans in Nepal. 

This beautiful, hand-tufted, 100% wool rug is adapted from the 1951 oil on masonite painting by Josef Albers. The rug is available in a limited edition of 150 and produced in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

While originally conceived for a child's room by the artist, this bold yet playful rug makes a beautiful statement in any room.

One of the most influential textile artists of the 20th century, Anni Albers began her career at the Bauhaus, where – prevented from studying other disciplines as a woman – she took up weaving under the tutelage of Gunta Stölzl. This kickstarted a lifelong passion for the tactile and aesthetic possibilities of textiles and led her to the US, where she became the first textile artist to be honoured with a show at the Museum of Modern Art – and the most famous weaver of the modern age.

The design for Child's Room Rug is based on her 1928 gouache sketch Rug Design for Child's Room.