OLGA DE AMARAL + EXPANDING TEXTILE BOUNDARIES

Created by Colombian fiber artist Olga de Amaral, this installation is titled Brumas.

Olga de Amaral, born in Bogotá in 1932, is a pioneering Colombian fiber artist who transformed textile work from craft into当代 sculpture and painting. Trained in architectural drafting before studying weaving at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1954 under Marianne Strengell, she developed a unique visual language fusing painting, sculpture, and textile. Rooted in Colombia's artisanal weaving traditions and influenced by pre-Columbian architecture, her practice uses horsehair, wool, linen, raffia, Japanese paper, acrylic paint, and gold leaf to create luminous, architectural fiber works that play with texture and light.

A major Olga de Amaral retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in 2025

Amaral is widely regarded as one of the most visionary figures in fiber art and a key figure in gaining acceptance for fiber art as a legitimate category of art making. Her work was featured in the influential 1969 MoMA exhibition Wall Hangings alongside Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney, which reevaluated fiber art as significant artistic enquiry. At 92, she continues pushing fiber art forward with recent milestones including her first European retrospective at Fondation Cartier, participation in the 60th Venice Biennale, and major solo exhibitions at Lisson Gallery in London and New York.

Rastros rojos by Olga de Amaral, the piece was constructed from horsehair and wool.