Alan Magee’s forays into tapestry creation have been particularly exciting because of the scale afforded by the medium. The successful translation of his small, extraordinarily detailed images into comparatively enormous woven works has been a testament to the diverse possibilities offered by the loom. It also speaks to Magee’s attention to detail: a painstaking and meticulous worker, Magee is one of the only artists to create and manipulate the digital files read by the Jacquard looms on his own. His paintings and prints can confound the viewer with their incredible realism; similarly, reviewers have been surprised to discover that his tapestries, like Cairn, are not photographs screened onto canvas but are in fact woven.
Magee's first tapestry was commissioned to hang in the Great Room of the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, Maine. More recently his tapestries have been displayed at the James A. Michener Art Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Frye Art Museum, and the Shorenstein Building (Bank of America Building) in San Francisco. |
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