Brooklyn designers are on the grid this season, taking part in with checks and plaids on textiles, rugs, homewares and sculpture. Some draw on Twenties checkerboard flooring, whereas others channel Nineteen Eighties New Wave brights.
The Patchwork Maxi Tank Gown by designer Parron Allen of Prospect Lefferts Gardens repurposes material scraps in a grid impressed by Mondrian and Yves Saint Laurent.
Riffing on discarded containers discovered on walks, Gowanus-based sculptor, painter and plaster artisan Stephen Antonson’s field sculptures reveal sudden textures and patterns.
Checks, grids, dots and squiggles are favourite motifs for practical ceramics handmade by Josephine Heilpern of Crown Heights.
Mattress Stuy-based Dusen Dusen’s anthropomorphic All people salt and pepper grinders stack faces, checks and stripes.
In Soho, artist Ethan Cook dinner interprets minimalist woven work into rugs that includes attenuated grids and oversize checks.
Editor’s notice: A model of this story appeared within the Spring/Summer time 2022 concern of Brownstoner journal.
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