Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Rug by Deborah Kass

The pattern for the limited edition Jungle Rug is based on a shower curtain that Jonas Wood grew up with and which also appears in other work by the artist.  The background is 100% natural hemp and the motif is a mix of black wool and silk with over 1.15 million knots. Whereas most carpets are washed with toxic chemicals, thus rug is made with environmentally friendly dyes and washed with only soap and water.

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Jonas Wood is represented by David Kordansky Gallery and Gagosian. He has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum Voorlinden, the Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka), Lever House, New York and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Phaidon published the first monograph dedicated to Wood’s paintings and drawings. 

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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. 

James Siena is a New York painter/printmaker who was for many years an artist’s artist and a well kept secret of the New York art scene. Siena builds complex quirky geometries based on defined instruction sets (algorithms) that amount to a kind of cowboy visual mathematics. 

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“Mr. Siena’s paintings transcend painting to  encroach on mathematics, puzzles, manuscript  illumination and maps. They elude Western art to  evoke Andean textiles, Chinese bronzes, African  bark paintings, Persian screens, jewelry and  glass-making and calligraphy. These disparate  associations, more carefully isolated and combined  in individual works than previously in Mr. Siena’s  art, make this savvy re-arrival the best show of  his career.” Roberta Smith, The New York Times

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James Siena’s work can be found in numerous public  collections including the Des Moines Art Center,  Iowa, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell  University, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, The  McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, The Met, New  York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The  Philip Morris Collection, The SF MOMA, The Hammer  Museum, Los Angeles and the Whitney 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. 

Since the late 1970s, Jonathan Lasker has developed a distinctive formal vocabulary based on different mark-making processes, including structural grids, graphic scribbled lines and thick impasto strokes of paint. Although he creates these forms intuitively, the compositions themselves are highly structured and controlled. At the forefront of artists who re-established the possibilities of painting after Minimalism and Conceptualism emptied the picture-plane, he has mounted a challenge to the medium’s status quo, creating a unique system of painting based on a figure ground relationship, in which the figure and ground stand in a dialectical relationship to one another.

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For this carpet, Lasker uses repeated, transposed forms to create an image composed of distinct, clearly defined elements. The viewer is encouraged to experience the image for themselves through the act of viewing and, in the end, they become the subject of Lasker’s carpet.

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Jonathan Lasker has enjoyed solo exhibitions at Greene Naftali, Cheim & Read, Sperone Westwater and at institutions including the Reina Sofia, Madrid; K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, The Power Plant Toronto, The Stedelijk Amsterdam; and the ICA Philadelphia, among many others. His work is held in numerous public collections in Europe and North America, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum Washington, DC; LACMA; The Metropolitan Museum New York, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The Reina Sofia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, The Museum Ludwig, Cologne, The NGA Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Canada, and the Whitney Museum New York.

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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. 

Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we perceive and reproduce images of what we think we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, what Mutu’s work looks at are value systems in art and beyond, that either obscure or elevate our image and reflections.

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In her collage-paintings, sculptures, films and performance rituals, Mutu uses ink, soil, ash, bronze, driftwood, horn, pigments, wine, and hair, ultimately keeping the figure as the focus, always seeking to find out more about who we are, what we mean to each other and why we continue to recreate ourselves for millennia through art.

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Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, currently “Wangechi Mutu” at Storm King Art Center and most recently at The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us” and at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum “Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening?”.

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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.