Kira Dominguez Hultgren,
Kira Dominguez Hultgren, "With Snakes In Their Wings", Mixed Media


1275 Minnesota St / Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Kira Dominguez Hultgren’s fourth solo show with the gallery. A textile artist, Dominguez Hultgren uses her practice to explore the ways her family has negotiated race in the U.S. Weaving allows Dominguez Hultgren to step into seemingly disparate archives and mix-up the parenthetical backdrops (California, the 1960s, four-petal and egg-shaped imagery, the ways race and culture were negotiated). Writ-large in this looking, in her making, is the use of the loom, particularly the site of the “heddle” (like an eye of a needle or a closed parentheses) through which each yarn must pass through (at least on a European floor loom).