Building the Essentials: Ferne Jacobs
The Craft in America Center is pleased to present the first ever retrospective of Los Angeles artist Ferne Jacobs. Since the 1960s, Ferne Jacobs has been at the forefront of the revolution in fiber art. She has pioneered ways to create a new category of sculpture. Transforming materials and pushing boundaries, she builds solid structures with coiled, twined, and knotted thread. This exhibition is the first to survey more than fifty years of Jacobs’ pivotal and timeless work through the present. Jacobs’ intimate drawings and collage diaries, which have never been publicly displayed before now, provide an additional lens into her vision, inspiration, and philosophical perspective.
The Craft in America Center is pleased to present the first ever retrospective of Los Angeles artist Ferne Jacobs. Since the 1960s, Ferne Jacobs has been at the forefront of the revolution in fiber art. She has pioneered ways to create a new category of sculpture. Transforming materials and pushing boundaries, she builds solid structures with coiled, twined, and knotted thread. This exhibition is the first to survey more than fifty years of Jacobs’ pivotal and timeless work through the present. Jacobs’ intimate drawings and collage diaries, which have never been publicly displayed before now, provide an additional lens into her vision, inspiration, and philosophical perspective.
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This catalog was published in conjunction
with the exhibition:
Building the Essentials: Ferne Jacobs
on view at the Craft in America Center,
Los Angeles, CA
April 2, 2022 – June 18, 2022
Curated by Emily Zaiden
This exhibition was supported by funding
from the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation.
Copyright 2022
Craft in America
8415 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
www.craftinamerica.org
ISBN: 978-1-7923-9391-4
Printed in Los Angeles
Designed by Peggy Luk
Written by Emily Zaiden
Photography by Madison Metro