Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center Conference talk by Naomi Lindenfeld

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Lore Kadden Lindenfeld: A Life in Textiles: with origins as a student of Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez, recounted by daughter and clay artisan, Naomi Lindenfeld

During Lore Kadden Lindenfeld’s time as a student at Black Mountain College between 1945-1948 she took textile and design courses with Anni and Josef Albers, Trude Guermonprez and others. From those studies she developed a life-long passion for textile arts. Greatly inspired by their teachings, she went on to design fabrics for the fashion industry in New York for ten years, followed by a career as an exhibiting weaver and then fiber collage artist, developing weaving courses for adult school and establishing the weaving program at a community college in New Jersey. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Art & Design (NY), the Smithsonian (DC), the Newark Museum (NJ), the Asheville Museum (NC) and in private collections.

Her earlier woven wall hangings very much demonstrate the Bauhaus influence along with expressing her own voice and sensibilities. With her later fiber collage pieces, she was intrigued with the potential of transforming and reinventing visual images of natural forms through the merging of graphic elements with fiber techniques. The addition of drawing, stitching and layering of materials, rhythms are echoed as she combined the real with the imagined.

This talk will be given by daughter, Naomi Lindenfeld, who has an established career as a clay artisan and ceramics teacher. One can very much see the aesthetic similarities in her innovative colored clay work. Naomi had the chance to carefully examine her mothers’ fiber work during the process of creating clay pieces that are directly inspired by specific pieces made by her mother. Naomi will touch on that experience during this talk. The “dialog” between the two artists occurred post Lore Kadden Lindenfeld’s death in 2010. Naomi hopes to keep her mother’s work and legacy alive through sharing these stories and images.