Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Lynne Cooke, renowned curator and art scholar, is senior curator in the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, after being appointed senior curator for special projects in modern art in 2014. She first joined the National Gallery in 2012 as Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center). Cooke has received many awards and is widely published. She has authored or written for art journals, including Artforum and The Burlington Magazine, and exhibition catalogues about the work of such artists as Willem de Kooning, Zoe Leonard, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, and Bill Traylor. She is the curator of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction.

Art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson is Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She writes with special emphasis on the history, theory, and conventions of painting and process. She is also a regular contributor to Artforum, and has penned numerous essays for international exhibition catalogs and artist monographs. Recent books include Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall/MIT, 2017) and Contemporary Painting (Thames & Hudson, 2021). She is currently at work on Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process, a study of the therapeutic origins of art-making within American modernism.