Lida Gordon: Process and Materials

Lida Gordon: Process and Materials
December 6 - February 28, 2025
Cressman Center for Visual Arts | 100 E Main St Louisville, KY
Opening Reception: Friday December 6 | 5-7pm

Lida Gordon (b. 1949- d. 2021) was a beloved Louisville based fiber artist and long-time faculty member at the Hite Institute of Art + Design. A contemporary artist coming of age in a post-modernist time, Gordon could not avoid the politics nor the poetics of fiber. She explored the transformation of women’s work through fiber art her entire career. “Process and Materials” celebrates Gordon’s enduring legacy in the city of Louisville with an exhibition of her work-drawings, sculptures, and soft fiber forms. Using process and materials Gordon prompted a re-examination of a term pejoratively relegated in hierarchical context to craft to re-define it as contemporary, feminist, and high art.