Lia Cook

San Francisco Bay Area artist who combines weaving with photography, painting, video, digital technology and neuroscience.

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Museum Collections

Selected Public Collections

 

Location Work(s)
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC Point of Touch: La Banista (1995)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Facing Touch (2011)
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Inner Tracts (2014)
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Inter-weave I (1974)
China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China Doll Face Tilt (2010)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Presence/Absence: Gather (1998)
  Landform Red (1978)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY Face Maps: Halfseen (2005)
  Binary Traces: Kay (2005)
  Digit Maps: Four Centimeters (2005)
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Backstage Curtain (1984)
  Lattice (1980)
  Lattice ODE to O.BE (1982)
  Little Tunnel V (1990)
  Point of Touch: Intention/Contention (1996)
  Shadow Frieze (1990)
  Through the Curtain #4 (1985)
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Face Maze: Tera (2007)
Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Sashay (1989)
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA Cindy Cloth (2011)
  Translucence (1978)
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, DC Coptic Manga (2011)
  Attitude (1999) 
  Small Comforts: Silk (2001)
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC On Edge (2003)
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI Mona Lia (2012)
Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA Gridlock A, B, C (2007)
  Passport (2016)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Tunnel Four (1990)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Shimmer Curtain III (1984)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Hanging Net (1984)
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Loin Cloth Anonymous (1995)
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Crazy Quilt: Royal Remnants III (1988)
  Cross Over (1988)
  Emergence (1979)
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland Material Pleasures: Artemisia II (1993)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Crazy Without Quilt (1987)
  Drapery Fragment: Two Lovers (1993)
  Leonardo’s Quilt Miniature (1991)
  Fragment: Venetian Laundry (1995)
  Drapery Fan (1991)
  Net Series #1 (1984)
  Floating (1982)
  Half Seen (2003)
  Leonardo’s Fan (1991)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Presence/Absence: Light Touch (1997)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Transposition II (1981)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW, Australia Big Beach Boy (2003)
National Permanent Millennium Collection US Embassy, Moscow New Master Draperies: Michelangelo (1991)
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Point of Touch: Bathsheba (1995)
  Untitled (1977)
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Blur Girl (2003)
La Quadrilatère, Beauvais, France
(formerly Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie et d’Art Textile)
Fabric II (1982)
The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Presence/Absence: Self Portrait II (1998)
  Royal Arches (1988)
  Presence/Absence: Shag (1999)
  Traces: Wonder (2002)
  Binary Traces Blur (2004)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Untitled Textile Panel (1982)
  Untitled Draft on Paper (1982)
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA Leonardo’s Quilt II (1991)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Sample for Spatial Ikat III (nd)
  Study for a Tapestry (study for Spatial Ikat III) (1976)
  Study for Tapestry (nd)
  Florentine Fresco (1992)
  Traces: Big Beach Baby (2001)
  Stage Curtain (1984)
  Crazy Too Quilt (1989)
  Presence/Absence: Touches II (1998)
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Through the Curtain #2 (1985)
Toms Pauli Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland Spatial Ikat II (1977)
US GSA, Frank Hagel Federal Building, Richmond, CA Spatial Ikat III (1976) – Installation December 1976
US GSA, Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse, Pittsburgh, PA Sons and Daughters (2006) – Installation June 2006 / Additional information
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Drapery Frieze: After Leonardo (1992)

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