Françoise Mairey, Substitution nº 3 (main gauche main droite notes manqées débordement effacement), 1977. Offset ink on paper.
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Cage (Head) #8 (Bitch), 2024. Wire fencing, floss, mini brads, acid free cellotape, document repair tape, beeswax, pigment, birth control DOW sticker, old jeans, serrated foil cutter, Chanel nail polish packaging, Sephora shopping bag, lace, Carolina Herrera “Good Girl” perfume packaging, childhood t-shirt, waterlogged “How to be Confident” listicle, jewelry chain, Neck Spasm rehabilitation exercises, old yoga pants, Hallmark envelope, yarn from childhood hat, UBS annual report, waterlogged Capital One credit score disclosure notice, invisible bra strap, Escitalopram 10 mg RX Safety Data Sheet, “11 expert-approved tips for learning how to be more decisive”, check from Tokio 7, Sephora perfume sample, Cosmopolitan February 2018 “Let go of Being the Perfect Partner” by Esther Perel, BATSHEVA online shopping packaging, Cosmopolitan September 2007 Emporio Armani Diamonds advertisement, Los Angeles Apparel packaging, Capezio shopping bag, glitched “Caryatid” wikipedia entry, LL Bean tote bag strings, leather cord, Elastan cord, silk thread, elastic cord, nylon cord, tulle, galvanized steel wire, zip ties, PVA; based on the dimensions of the artist’s head. Image courtesy of Silke Lindner, New York.
March 30–May 4, 2025
A group show inspired by the machine writings of Françoise Mairey
Claudia Alarcón & Silät
Anonymous
Susan Cianciolo
Mary Clarke
Abigail Hack
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Christine Kelly
Ellen Lesperance
Françoise Mairey
Hendl Helen Mirra
Lizzie Scott
Oriane Stender
Maggie Thompson
Broodthaers Society of America
520 West 143rd Street
New York, NY 10031
Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, 12:00–6:00pm
and by appointment
The Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to present Text :: Textile, the seventh exhibition and grand finale to our season-long investigation into the materiality of language. The show opens at 12:00 noon on Sunday, March 30, with a reception for the artists from 3:00-5:00pm.
The Broodthaers Society is also pleased about the coincidence of its show with Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an exhibition organized by Lynne Cooke that opens at MoMA on April 20. In fact, Anni Albers, one of the cornerstones of Cooke's show, often used a typewriter as a kind of sketchpad for making studies of pattern density and repetition, a creative process she had in common with the French concrete poet Françoise Mairey.
Text :: Textile is inspired by Substitution (1977), Françoise Mairey's portfolio of concrete poems made on a Remington J2016997 manual typewriter. Originally conceived as forty-three "exercises" similar to those one might do on a piano, Mairey's poems also evoke a sense of weaving and textiles. To explore this association, Text :: Textile will present thirty-six artworks by twelve artists from across the United States, South America, and Central Asia that expand on the political and aesthetic relationships between the two—between the mechanics of text and the structure of textiles.
Not to ignore Mairey's original synesthetic wish for her typewriter to be thought of as a musical instrument, Text :: Textile will be further accompanied by a selection of landmark keyboard music from the era. Vinyl recordings by John Cage, Julius Eastman, Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock, Isao Tomita, Horace Tapscott, and Cecil Taylor, among others, will be on hand for the listening pleasure of our viewers.
Following are brief bios for the exhibition's visual artists:
Claudia Alarcón is an indigenous textile artist based in Argentina, where she leads Silät, an indigenous collective of multigenerational female weavers.
Anonymous is the standard designation given to objects that were not identified by their maker, are the result of community-based production, or are from cultures that do not recognize the concept of individual authorship. In this case it refers to the Suzani textile artists of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Susan Cianciolo identifies as a designer who makes art and a conceptual artist who designs clothes, often at the same time. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Last summer, RUN, her multi-faceted handmade fashion enterprise, held RUN 15, a small animal making workshop at Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace is a sculptor whose work interweaves artifacts of memory, self, and family history. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She mounted her first one-person show at Silke Lindner, New York, last fall.
Mary Clarke is Executive Editor at Bridal Guide magazine and an accomplished editorial professional, having worked as Beauty Director for Modern Bride and Beauty Editor and Creative Director at Sassy. She most recently participated in Karma Bookstore's 2024 Holiday Market.
Abigail Hack s a fiber artist living and working in Brooklyn. She is interested in connection, tension, lifelines, and love. She earned a BA from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in 2020.
Christine Kelly has just published her first poetry collection, Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid, with PRROBLEM press. She lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Ellen Lesperance has work included in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at MoMA, as well as work in the permanent collection of the Broodthaers Society of America.
Françoise Mairey is a bit of a mystery. Little is known about her life and work aside from information on publisher Guy Schraenen"s website, and her inclusion in the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry, 1959–1979.
Hendl Helen Mirra is a haptics-based conceptual artist living and working in Muir Beach, California. Their most recent exhibitions have been the group show En traveaux at Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris (2024) and green holotrope, a solo show at Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (2023).
Lizzie Scott is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. In 2024 she mounted three two-person shows in the United States, including Architecture of Layers, Yifat Gat and Lizzie Scott at the Haggerty Gallery, Dallas University, Texas.
Oriane Stender is a craft-based conceptual artist who dismantles appropriated objects (legal tender, books) and processes (collage, weaving) to make their underlying structures and imagery more explicit. She lives and works in Brooklyn, where she was recently the Lenore Tawney Artist in Residence at ISCP.
Maggie Thompson is a textile artist and designer who derives inspiration from her Ojibwe heritage, her family history, and the contemporary Native American experience. Her work was included in Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. She lives in St. Paul and works in Minneapolis.
A group show inspired by the machine writings of Françoise Mairey
Claudia Alarcón & Silät
Anonymous
Susan Cianciolo
Mary Clarke
Abigail Hack
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Christine Kelly
Ellen Lesperance
Françoise Mairey
Hendl Helen Mirra
Lizzie Scott
Oriane Stender
Maggie Thompson
Broodthaers Society of America
520 West 143rd Street
New York, NY 10031
Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, 12:00–6:00pm
and by appointment
The Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to present Text :: Textile, the seventh exhibition and grand finale to our season-long investigation into the materiality of language. The show opens at 12:00 noon on Sunday, March 30, with a reception for the artists from 3:00-5:00pm.
The Broodthaers Society is also pleased about the coincidence of its show with Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an exhibition organized by Lynne Cooke that opens at MoMA on April 20. In fact, Anni Albers, one of the cornerstones of Cooke's show, often used a typewriter as a kind of sketchpad for making studies of pattern density and repetition, a creative process she had in common with the French concrete poet Françoise Mairey.
Text :: Textile is inspired by Substitution (1977), Françoise Mairey's portfolio of concrete poems made on a Remington J2016997 manual typewriter. Originally conceived as forty-three "exercises" similar to those one might do on a piano, Mairey's poems also evoke a sense of weaving and textiles. To explore this association, Text :: Textile will present thirty-six artworks by twelve artists from across the United States, South America, and Central Asia that expand on the political and aesthetic relationships between the two—between the mechanics of text and the structure of textiles.
Not to ignore Mairey's original synesthetic wish for her typewriter to be thought of as a musical instrument, Text :: Textile will be further accompanied by a selection of landmark keyboard music from the era. Vinyl recordings by John Cage, Julius Eastman, Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock, Isao Tomita, Horace Tapscott, and Cecil Taylor, among others, will be on hand for the listening pleasure of our viewers.
Following are brief bios for the exhibition's visual artists:
Claudia Alarcón is an indigenous textile artist based in Argentina, where she leads Silät, an indigenous collective of multigenerational female weavers.
Anonymous is the standard designation given to objects that were not identified by their maker, are the result of community-based production, or are from cultures that do not recognize the concept of individual authorship. In this case it refers to the Suzani textile artists of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Susan Cianciolo identifies as a designer who makes art and a conceptual artist who designs clothes, often at the same time. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Last summer, RUN, her multi-faceted handmade fashion enterprise, held RUN 15, a small animal making workshop at Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York.
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace is a sculptor whose work interweaves artifacts of memory, self, and family history. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She mounted her first one-person show at Silke Lindner, New York, last fall.
Mary Clarke is Executive Editor at Bridal Guide magazine and an accomplished editorial professional, having worked as Beauty Director for Modern Bride and Beauty Editor and Creative Director at Sassy. She most recently participated in Karma Bookstore's 2024 Holiday Market.
Abigail Hack s a fiber artist living and working in Brooklyn. She is interested in connection, tension, lifelines, and love. She earned a BA from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in 2020.
Christine Kelly has just published her first poetry collection, Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid, with PRROBLEM press. She lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Ellen Lesperance has work included in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at MoMA, as well as work in the permanent collection of the Broodthaers Society of America.
Françoise Mairey is a bit of a mystery. Little is known about her life and work aside from information on publisher Guy Schraenen"s website, and her inclusion in the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry, 1959–1979.
Hendl Helen Mirra is a haptics-based conceptual artist living and working in Muir Beach, California. Their most recent exhibitions have been the group show En traveaux at Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris (2024) and green holotrope, a solo show at Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (2023).
Lizzie Scott is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. In 2024 she mounted three two-person shows in the United States, including Architecture of Layers, Yifat Gat and Lizzie Scott at the Haggerty Gallery, Dallas University, Texas.
Oriane Stender is a craft-based conceptual artist who dismantles appropriated objects (legal tender, books) and processes (collage, weaving) to make their underlying structures and imagery more explicit. She lives and works in Brooklyn, where she was recently the Lenore Tawney Artist in Residence at ISCP.
Maggie Thompson is a textile artist and designer who derives inspiration from her Ojibwe heritage, her family history, and the contemporary Native American experience. Her work was included in Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. She lives in St. Paul and works in Minneapolis.