The American SetWindy Chien Turns Cord Into a Line You Can Stand Beside
Windy Chien is a California artist whose medium is cord, worked into knots packed so closely that each piece reads as a single deliberate mark. Some of the works hang flat and act like paintings, with color and texture doing what a brush would. Others leave the wall as bold, graphic objects with a sculptor's sense of edge and silhouette. Either way, the line is physical: it sits in the room with the viewer instead of on a surface, and it is best judged up close, where the hand behind each knot shows.
With reporting from Galerie.
