Abbey Muza
Voila XXXX , 2023
Silk and cotton handwoven textile, organza, gesso on panel
20 x 15.75 in

About the work
This piece was made during Muza's Fulbright Harriet-Hale Wooley fellowship in Paris, France. There, they conducted research into the archives of queer artists and writers working in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Collected text and narratives from the archives were assembled, then mediated into a series of abstracted text and image-based tapestries. The tapestries and weavings in the resultant show, Fragments, responded to and paid homage to the queer artists and writers of this uniquely open and productive time.

Bio
Abbey Muza is an interdisciplinary artist and weaver. They make tapestries centered in queer identity, narrative, and abstraction. They have been an artist in residence at ACRE and Alternative Worksite, and have been a Fulbright France Harriet-Hale Wooley Awardee, a Leroy Neiman Fellow at the Oxbow School of Art, and a visiting artist at the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Muza has shown their work in solo and duo shows at spaces including Tusk (Chicago), Slow Dance (Chicago), and the Fondation des Etats Unis (Paris). They have a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.

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