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Hooray for Handicrafts

_D3P0349_resize.jpgExhibitions based on handicrafts have been making a big comeback in the Bay Area in recent years, what with the city’s two museums dedicated to crafts helping to spotlight artists who work in handicraft media and organizations like YBCA also doing their part to put on exhibitions focusing on crafts.

The visual art show of works by the fiber/DIMENSIONS artists’ collective currently going on at The Presidio Officers’ Club Exhibition Hall through December 19 — intersections 5 — furthers the campaign to divest basket-weaving, knitting, crochet, applique and other time-honored techniques from the musty clutches of the village hall blue rinse brigade.

The diverse exhibition curated by Richard Elliott includes everything from kimonos made of stained coffee filters (a fascinating combination of Eastern and Western cultural traditions) by Lucia Matzger (pictured), to delicate lace forms by Jeanette Carr. The variety and color on display as well as the ways in which the artists nudge us into thinking about the materials and unusual structures they take makes us the world of things in a new way.

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