NICOLE SALIMBENE
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ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES 

2019-2022, materials: Artforum magazine pages, waxed linen thread, jewelry wire, metal
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Artforum Tapestry XII, detail
In this series, I repurpose the pages of Artforum magazine to reflect on the relationship between consumerism, gender and the contemporary art market. The pages, rolled and bound with wire, simultaneously hide and reveal content, signifying the tension of inclusion and exclusion within the market. Threaded together, pages containing art criticism and glossy advertisements are reimagined from historically situated texts into a perceptual field of color, composition and poetics.  In this transformative process, I adapt the power dynamics of the traditionally male-dominated art market into the traditionally feminine craft of tapestries.
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I began this body of work in 2019. Personally, it has evolved to hold multiple paradoxes related to the art market and my art practice.  The magazines which started with my own collection soon after included the collections of fellow D.C. area artists, taking on a useful repurposing and space making from those long-held collections. It also provided decades of perspective on the art market as I deconstructed the magazines. This proved to be both mind-blowingly irritating, as I observed patterns of the artists who have been repeatedly forwarded, but also wildly therapeutic in the ripping, cutting and sorting of those pages. The process reminded me of the Louise Bourgeois statement, “I do, I undo, I redo.” This way of working has been with me in earlier works, but somehow all the more poignant to me in this series.

The assembling and weaving of these tapestries is where I am perhaps most grounded in the way that I practice, since it bridges the conceptual and meditative components of the making together in the overall form. Working between bits of images and text revealed and hidden in the rolls and the repetition in the construction, I feel a full sense of embodiment in the process, which is slow and unfolding. This speaks to my personal rhythm and a quality I hope is also communicated in the final work.
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XV, 40" X 36" X .5", 2022
The Washington Post, In the galleries: Paper pushers: Artists stretch creative limits. Concepts of the medium are expanded, manipulated, recycled or otherwise transformed, Mark Jenkins (September 16, 2022)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SCROLL II, 76" X 26" X .5", 2021 Public Art Commission by Kalisher for AC Hotel
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SCROLL II, 2021 detail Public Art Commission by Kalisher for AC Hotel
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SCROLL II, 76" X 26" X .5", 2021 installation view Public Art Commission by Kalisher for AC Hotel, Bethesda, MD
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XII, (private commission) 36" W x 40" H x.5" D, 2021
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XII, detail, 2021
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XII, detail, 2021
Artforum Tapestry Triptych 18’ x 5’4” x .5”, sculpture 2020 Public Art Commission by SWATCHROOM for CARR PROPERTIES
Artforum Tapestry Triptych 18’ x 5’4” x .5”, sculpture 2020 Public Art Commission by SWATCHROOM for CARR PROPERTIES
CARR PROPERTIES Installation site: 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600, Alexandria, VA
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IX, 48” W x 40” H x .5”D, 2020 (sold)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IX, detail, 2020
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IX, detail, 2020
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VIII, 60”W x 52”H x .5”D, 2020 (sold)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VIII, detail, 2020
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VIII, 60”W x 52”H x .5”D, 2020
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XI, 48” W x 40” H x .5” D, 2020 (sold)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XI, detail, 2020
installation Glover Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. ARTFORUM TAPESTRY XI, 2020
50th Anniversary Issue Artforum Tapestry, 48"W x 40"H x.5"D, 2020 (sold)
detail, 50th Anniversary Issue Artforum Tapestry, detail, 2020
making, 50th Anniversary Issue Artforum Tapestry, 2020
Artforum Tapestry VII, 36" x 40" x.5", 2020 (sold)
Artforum Tapestry VII, detail 2020
installation view, The Next Big Thing, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VI, 36”W x 47”H x .5”D, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VI, detail, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY VI, detail, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY III, 48”W x 40”H x .5”D, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY III, detail
installation view, Pulling Together, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SCROLL,26”W x 110”H x .5”D, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SCROLL, detail
installation view, Color exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IV, 36”W x 47”H x .5”D, 2019
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IV, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY IV, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY V, 36”W x 47”H x .5”D, 2019 (N/A)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY V, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY V, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY II, 48”W x 42”H x .5”D, 2019 (N/A)
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY II, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY II, 2019 detail
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY I, 2019 (sold) 60”W x 34”H x .5”D
ARTFORUM TAPESTRY I, 2019 detail (SOLD)
catalog, Washington Project for the Arts Collectors' Night, Washington, D.C. (SOLD)
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Group Exhibition:
Forecast
November 3, 2022–January 22, 2023
Curated by Alissa Maru in collaboration with Hannah Barco and Sue Wrbican

Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Friday, November 4, 6–8pm (please note time correction)
Tephra ICA at Signature
www.tephraica.org

​​22 artist's predictions: Rahne Alexander, Nina Q. Allen, Laure Drogoul, Cheryl Edwards, Heloisa Escudero, Maggie Gourlay, Mira Hecht, Kay Hwang, Veronica Jackson, Jessica Kallista, Maria Karametou, Isabel Manalo, Ceci Cole McInturff, Meeting Ground (Susan Main and MJ Neuberg), Zia Palmer, Judith Pratt, Lisa Rosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Asha Santee, Kat Thompson, Jessica Valoris, Naoko Wowsugi

© 2022 Nicole Salimbene

  • Works
    • WE ARE WATER
    • ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES
    • RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES
    • UNFOLDING
    • KNOWING YOUR WATER
    • MOVED BY WATER SERIES
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONSUMPTION: FIVE SCROLLS
    • DIVINE FEMININE SERIES
    • MAKEUP SERIES: TREMBLING
    • SCAPULAR SERIES
    • MENDING
    • STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • ARCHIVE >
      • STONE TO STONE
      • PROTEST RECEIPTS
      • FIGURES IN CEMENT
      • BOX SERIES
      • FACTORY SHRINE
  • ABOUT
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    • BIO
    • CV
  • PRESS
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