Ensemble Exhibition - May 1st

Join us on Thursday May 1st from 4-8pm for an exhibition revealing the premier collection of transformed & wearable textiles by The Stain Lab.

The Stain Lab is a textile centered intergenerational co-lab between emerging artist Nick D’Alessandro and established artist Christine Tarkowski. Both artists work in sprawling modes of textiles, sculpture and design.

The Stain Lab’s process of affecting textiles is one that starts with a raw cloth’s qualities and the seasonally available plants accessible in proximity to their Chicago workshop. Through a brewing process using found plants they create naturally dyed atmospheric grounds. Fiber-reactive dye then colors the textiles in hand printed layers to produce deep abstract space and chromatic landscapes. Each textile is treated as a unique painting, labored over in time.

Every wearable is patterned, cut, and constructed by hand in their Little Village studio by either Christine or Nick. Each garment the only of its kind; a living object with imprints of time past, and an anticipation of the future. Within a single ensemble, a compositional aggregate of material and matter collide to create a temporal object that resists inertia.  

Find them on instagram @thestainlab

Visit their website https://thestainlab.com/