Lenore Tawney: Drawings in Air

By Kathleen Mangan
browngrotta arts
Wilton, Connecticut
$25

In honor of the 100th birthday of Lenore Tawney, who in the 1950s and 60s was one of a group of artists who created sculptural weaving or fiber works that hung freely in space, browngrotta arts has published this 36-page monograph, the first in a series examining a particular period or body of work by an established artist. It presents Tawney's geometric drawings of the 1960s and their realization in the 1990s as three-dimensional thread constructions in Plexiglas boxes-"drawings in air." Bringing together Tawney's ideas and intentions, Kathleen Mangan offers insight into these evocative works. (Lenore Tawney died September 23. A tribute will follow in a forthcoming issue.)