Opening January 8, 2010 through February 13, 2010
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Demons, Yarns & Tales featuring hand-
woven tapestries created by thirteen internationally renowned artists, including avaf, Peter Blake,
Gary Hume, Jaime Gili, Francesca Lowe, Beatriz Milhazes, Paul Noble, Grayson Perry,
Shahzia Sikander, Fred Tomaselli, Gavin Turk, Julie Verhoeven, and Kara Walker. The
exhibition was created by the London-based art organization, Banners of Persuasion, who
commissioned each artist to design a tapestry, a medium foreign to his or her usual practice.
Three years in the making, the collection was briefly shown at the end of 2008 at The Dairy,
London and at Miami Basel and is now traveling to James Cohan Gallery for its premiere viewing
in New York. In addition, the gallery will be present a small-scale exhibition of drawings and other
relevant works by selected participating artists.
Although Tapestry is more often associated with decorative or applied arts and has faded as a
primary art medium in the age of mechanization and mass-production, it has been continually explored by prominent visual artists such as Picasso, Kandinsky, Warhol and more recently Chuck
Close, Craigie Horsefield and William Kentridge. This exhibition actively invites viewers to re-think
and re-address this rich and complex historical medium in the realm of contemporary art practice.
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