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The Textile Artists Bringing Fiber Art Into the Future

Christy Matson with (from left) Layered Terrain and Climbing Rose, both 2025. Matson wears a Ferragamo dress and shoes. Photographed by Keith Oshiro.

Fusing age-old techniques with digital tools, a new generation of creatives is expanding the tradition of tapestries—and filling art galleries and museums to a degree never seen before.

by Jori Finkel

"..... The Los Angeles artist Christy Matson, who once taught de la Paz at the Art Institute of Chicago—yes, weavers tend to know one another—says she works exclusively with the TC2 to achieve painterly effects such as color gradation and shading that would be “incredibly difficult,” if not impossible, to create otherwise. Her woven landscapes have the atmospheric softness of watercolors, and in fact they start as small paintings on paper that she refines in Photoshop..."

December 9, 2025

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