CANDACE KLING
COLLECTORS/COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Arts and
Design (formerly The American Craft Museum), NY
Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, CA
The Oakland Museum of
California, CA
Alex and Camille Cook, IL
Elton John, UK
Kamm Collection, CA
Dale and Doug Anderson, NY
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
Ann Getty, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007-9
“Craft
in America: Expanding Traditions”, traveling exhibition organized by Craft in
America, Inc.
Fuller
Craft Museum, Brockton MA
National
Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City OK
Cranbrook Art Museum at Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Bloomfield MI
Houston
Center for Contemporary Art, Houston TX
Mingei International Museum, San Diego CA
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock AR
2008
“22nd
Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition”, Emeryville CA
“Treasured
Vessels: The Art of the Teapot”, Gump’s, San Francisco CA
2007
“The
Teapot Redefined”, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge MA
“Sum
of the Parts”, H&R Block ArtSpace, Kansas City KS
2006-7
“One
of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement”, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NY
“Material
Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works”, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2006
“5th
International Fiber Biennial”, Snyderman-Works
Galleries, Philadelphia PA
“By
the Hand”, The Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA
“The
Teapot Redefined VI”, “SOFA”, Mobilia Gallery,
Chicago IL
2005-6
“Beyond
the Weave: New Directions in Fiber Art”, The Oakland
Museum of California, Oakland Airport Exhibitions, Oakland CA
2003-6
“Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle”,
toured by ExhibitsUSA
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities
Council, Texarkana TX
Gallery 210, St. Louis MI
McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte NC
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge IA
Brevard
Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne FL
Milton
Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey PA
Ellen
Noel Art Museum, Odessa TX
J
Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station TX
2005
“An
Array of Small Works”, Crockett Contemporary Art, Crockett CA
“Contemporary
Fiber Art – A Sampler”, Sisneros Fine Art, Tulsa OK
“The
Teapot Redefined V”, Mobilia Gallery “SOFA”, Chicago
IL
“Piece”,
Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA
“Artwear: Fashion and Anti-Fashion”, California Palace of
the Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA
“Nouvelle
Nuptials”, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco CA
2004-5
“Ready to Wear”, John Michael Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan WI
2004
“Teapot
Redefined IV”, Mobilia Gallery, “SOFA”, Chicago IL
“Constructions
& Compositions”, Virginia Breier Gallery, San
Francisco CA
2003
“Iconic
to Ironic: Fashioning California Identity”, The Oakland
Museum of California, Oakland CA
“Pins
and Needles”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
“Salad
Dressing”, COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa CA
“Teapot
Redefined III”, Mobilia Gallery, “SOFA”, Chicago IL
2002
“Tea”,
Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco CA
“Teapot
Redefined II”, Mobilia Gallery, “SOFA”, Chicago IL
“SOFA”,
Mobilia Gallery, New York NY
“Fiber
2002”, Green Shutter Gallery, Hayward CA
2001
“An
Oakland Metaphor: Hidden Treasures, The Pardee Artists”, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland CA
“Head
to Toe”, FiberScene, www.fiberscene.com
“Reality
Check: Representational Objects in Unlikely Media”, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus
OH
“New
Forms in Fiber: Trends and Traditions”, Mobilia
Gallery, Cambridge MA
“Teapot
Redefined”, Mobilia Gallery, “SOFA” Chicago IL
2000
“Made
In California: Art Image And Identity, 1900 - 2000”,
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1999
“SOFA”,
Mobilia Gallery, Chicago IL
“Fiber
Art from the Permanent Collection”, M.H.deYoung
Memorial Museum, San Francisco CA
“Needle
Art”, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center
for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1998
“SOFA”,
Mobilia Gallery, Chicago IL
“A
Feast for the Eye”, The M.H.deYoung
Memorial Museum, San Francisco CA
“Defining
Fiber”, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA
1997
“Celebrating
American Craft, American Craft 1975-1995”, The Danish
Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Art
– In Fashion”, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette IN
“SOFA”,
Mobilia Gallery, Chicago IL
1995-96
“Old
Meets New: Sampler Art”, Organized by Mobilia
Gallery, Cambridge MA
American
Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA
Charles
A. Wustum Museum, Racine WI
“SOFA”,
Mobilia Gallery, Chicago IL
1995
“8th
International Triennale of Tapestry”, Lodz, Poland
1993
“Hybridization:
Contemporary California Craft”, CCAC/Oliver Art Center, Oakland CA
“Hats! Ahead
Of Fashion”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
“New
Acquisitions: Craft Today USA”, American Craft Museum, New York NY
1989-93
“Craft
Today USA”, Traveling Exhibition organized by the American Craft Museum, New
York NY
Musee des Arts Decoratifs,
Paris, France
Museum
of Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland
Museum
fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany
Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Musee des Arts Decoratifs,
Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art, Moscow,
U.S.S.R.
State
Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
The
Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway
St.
Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium
The
Zappeion, Athens, Greece
Slovak
National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
The
Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
The
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1990
“Heads,
Treads & Threads”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
“Traje: Um Objecto de Arte?”, The Gulbenkian, Lisbon,
Portugal
“Art
Forms & The Body”, Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Explorations:
The Aesthetics of Excess”, The American Craft Museum,
New York NY
1988
“Above
the Shoulders”, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco CA
1986
“Helmets/Headdresses”,
The Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Solo show)
1985
“Helmets and Masks”, Himovitz/Salomon
Gallery, Sacramento CA
1984
“Textile
Expressions 1984: Hi-Tech Textiles”, Fiberworks
Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley CA
1981
“Undercover”,
Chevron Gallery, San Francisco CA
“Fiberworks: Exhibits/Projects”, Fiberworks
Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley CA
With
the exception of the 1986 Solo show, all the above are group shows.
RESEARCH
1979
-present:
Historical techniques used to manipulate ribbon and fabric, The Oakland Museum
of California, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Chicago Historical
Society, Smithsonian Institution, The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and others
PUBLICATIONS
“The Artful Ribbon”, C&T Publishing, 1996
Main Selection Winter ’96, Book of the Month
Club, Crafters’ Choice
1998 Bestseller, amazon.com, Category: Needle
art
My work is included in these recent books:
“Teapots, Makers and Collectors”, by Dona Meilach
“Artwear: Fashion
and Anti-Fashion”, by Melissa Leventon
“Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall
Works”, edited by Friends of Fiber Art
“Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries
of Artists and Objects”, by Jo Lauria and Steve
Fenton
Magazine articles about the work have
appeared in Victoria, Threads, Fiberarts, Piecework,
Treasures in Needlework, and others
TV APPEARANCES
HGTV, The Carol
Duvall Show, Segment #’s 223, 228, 434, 448, 549, 554, 573 & 1243
LIFETIME TV, Handmade
By Design
VIDEO
“Wearable
Art From California: Kling/Hauptli”, University of
California, Davis, Extension Media
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Museum of Art and Design, California College
of the Arts, The Costume Society of America, JFK University, Costume Council of
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The
Surface Design Association, The Oakland Museum of California, University of California,
Davis, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, Friends of Fiber Art
International, Filoli Center, Southwest Craft Center,
The Sewing Workshop, Nancy’s Sewing Basket, The Edwardian Needle, Embroiderers’
Guilds of America, Inc., Hallmark Cards, Inc., and others
PROFESSONAL
AFFILIATIONS
The Costume Society of America, Western
Region Board Member
The Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco
The Surface Design Association
Lacis Museum Advisory
Board
Friends of Fiber Art International
EDUCATION
BFA with High Distinction, 1978
California College of the Arts (formerly
California College of Arts and Crafts), Oakland CA
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
Leighton Atelier, San Francisco CA
College of Alameda, Alameda CA
Laney College, Oakland CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
CA
Parsons School of Design, New York NY
BORN San Francisco CA
USA
CANDACE KLING