Jordan Craig, Molly Haynes, Aaron McIntosh, John Paul Morabito, James Mullane, Aaron Storm, Stephanie Robison, & Hope Wang 

Friend of a Friend Gallery (FOAF) is excited to announce Phantom Haptics, our newest exhibition focusing on the physicality of contemporary textiles. As one of the oldest art forms in the memory of our species, textiles are specters of artistic, social, and cultural pasts. Phantom  Haptics looks to the future of textiles, asking what the art form has become at a time when their innately somatic qualities are estranged from our  hyper-digitized perceptions. The selected artists use textiles to either distance or ground themselves firmly within three modes of usage. Textiles  are first and foremost sensory objects that require a great deal of manual manipulation in their production and are activated through touch.  Textiles also function more metaphorically as connectors - works that are communally made and pay credence to a specific group, “touching”  many through existing singularity. Finally, textiles have increasingly been used in contemporary work to offset other physical mediums, blurring the  boundaries between ways of making and furthering multidimensional form.  

After the opening reception on October 16 from 7 -9 PM the exhibition will be on view by appointment through November 21, 2021. Email FOAF  to request your viewing spot and price sheet.