Dallas Contemporary – Opening Celebration of ‘You Stretched Diagonally Across It’

When

April 11, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

What

Dallas Contemporary is pleased to present You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, a group exhibition bringing together thirty artists, and opening 11 April 2025. Organized by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, the exhibition is at once a taxonomical examination and categorical collapse, offering extended engagement with tapestry while reflecting how contemporary artists have magnified and challenged the material, ideological, and narrative conventions of the age-old medium.

Expanding on a recent spate of exhibitions featuring historical textile works, You Stretched Diagonally Across It presents contemporary tapestry as an active inflection point for unresolved inquiries into the human condition: including notions of tradition and authenticity, durational effort in the face of technological mediation, and depictions of vastness and omniscience in physical form.

To accompany the exhibition, Los Angeles-based vintage textile library and shop Kneeland Co. will take over and activate the Dallas Contemporary store, featuring specially designed ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and collectibles, for sale exclusively in the shop. All pieces are specially designed for and inspired by You Stretched Diagonally Across It, and will even include works by artists featured in the exhibition.

Tickets

Suggested donation $10

Where

Dallas Contemporary

161 Glass St, Dallas, TX 75207