Maybe my favorite living artist is Seattle’s Mandy Greer, who works in crochet, textiles, costumes, installations, and video. Her work has a strong fairy-tale, archetypal component that I adore. I’ve followed her career for almost a decade and now own two of her early works, but this article is maybe the most concise evocation of what makes her work so magical to me.

Stitching Together Yarn, Memory and History

“Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment” is a multipart installation at the Hudson River Museum that includes textiles, photography, video, sound, found objects and dozens of items from the museum’s decorative arts collection.