Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong is pleased to announce our forthcoming group exhibition The Thread Is Not Straight September 10 – October 29 with an opening reception on Saturday, September 10, 4-6pm.

The Thread Is Not Straight includes the work of international and locally based artists: Diedrick Brackens, Cristina Camacho, IV Chan, Marie Hazard, Ip Wai Lung, Judy Ledgerwood, and Josie Love Roebuck who all work innovatively within the media of textile and painting to show a complex array of personal and political narratives.

The use of textile, material and thread has experienced a resurgence in contemporary art as a means of exploring identity, heritage, abstraction and the subversion of mainstream art traditions. Denny Dimin Gallery has had an ongoing investigation into the legacy of the Pattern and Decoration movement, which started to explore these themes in the 1970s and 80s with one of the included artists, Judy Ledgerwood as an early proponent. The P & D movement celebrated the artist and media which were slighted by the art world at the time. The work made by affiliated artists such as Ledgerwood, referenced fabric design, quilting, embroidery and other art forms deemed to have more associations with craft. Through The Thread Is Not Straight, Denny Dimin Gallery continues to exemplify how global artists use textile, thread, and associated media to disrupt notions of perfection, gender, body, abstraction and objecthood.

Gallery address: No. 612 Remex Center, No. 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road