Last September, 1014 kicked off the Fall season with the exhibition Delirious Disruptions by German artist Annette Cords, featuring her Jacquard tapestries, works on paper, and digital prints. Through diverse media and approaches, Cords explored the material culture of the city and the layered messages that coexist, amplify, and void each other in the built environment.

From now until December 3, the Jacquared tapestries exploring urban life and typography will be included in an exhibition, “Structure and Story”, part of the 2024 New Member cohort at EFA Studios in Midtown!

EFA Studios is proud to present the work of the 2024 New Member cohort, selected by a distinguished review panel from a competitive open call. The group is connected through formal and conceptual threads including myth, craft, and creative responses to social and built contexts. Their work demonstrates a strong commitment to studio practice and well-developed aesthetic programs.

Regina Parra (b. Brazil) employs mythology and pagan references in performances, installations, and paintings to reclaim the female body from male narrativization. Parra’s painting Venus Intoxicating Mars depicts a lush spread of tropical fruit suggestive of female potency. Contrasting this is Cecil Howell’s (b. New York) abstract pastel drawings, which are inspired by objects and marks on the ground. The ground she renders is synthetic, ephemeral, and teeters between reality and dream. Negin Mahzoun (b. Iran) reveals the pressures that repressive societies place on women through striking work incorporating photography, folding, and stitching. 

Camille Eskell (b. New York) comes from a textile trading family from Bombay. Her work links personal photographs, vintage fabrics, and fez hats to deconstruct a family legacy of patriarchy and global trade. The digital jacquard woven works of Annette Cords (b. Germany) emerge from a study of graffiti, urban signage, and typography. At times hung from doorway-like metal frames, her work is in dynamic dialog with architecture and space. Kate Hopkins’ (b. Colorado) systematic paintings reference repetitive crafts such as weaving or Swedish rosemaling (a kind of tole painting) and natural phenomena like butterfly scales. Hopkins’ work negotiates a generative space between decorative pleasure and solemn abstraction. The artists in the exhibition create works that reflect a subtle understanding of the present filtered through the stories and traces of the past.

1014 is excited for Annette, and thrilled to see the tapestries on display once again!