Deanna Gabiga

I’m a metal and textile artist, who takes a single metal thread and creates meticulously stitched, hand-crocheted sculptures. Stitches are connections, building relationships and memories.

Most recently from Hawai’i and currently living in Japan, I am fascinated with juxtapositions and transformations in our ever changing world. Manipulating copper wire with textile techniques, I create artworks that combine the hard, masculine properties of metals with soft, feminine textile techniques. Stitching these two elements together transforms each piece into a stronger, more cohesive sculpture.

Whether it is bare copper, anodized copper with color, or a copper core wrapped in gold, I love how the simplicity of a single hook and copper wire threads become a voluminous, organic installation in my hands.

Hand-crocheting is a meditative action for me. The smooth copper wire glides through my fingers and over my crochet hook. Like the ensō, its single meditative loop represents a single moment of open creation, each crochet stitch I make is created from a varying number of loops. Each completed loop is the copper thread telling the story in sculptural form.

My work process is interdisciplinary. I often take photographs of my fiber ...

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Nov 18 - 28
‘10’ Art Byte Critique 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Launch Pad Gallery
Yokohama, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Interval, Launch Pad Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

2015 Butterfly Rainforest: Preparing for Flight, Cairns Botanic Gardens, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

2014 Electric Butterflies, Shiro Oni Studio, Onishi, Gunma, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Kyoto Arts Festival, Kyoto, Japan
2022 Independent Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2022 In/tangible, Art For Thought Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Imagination for the Future, Kyoto, Japan, Gallery Keifu (Curated by Yumi Inoue)
2019 In The Details, Le Deco Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Hawai'i Craftsmen - 50th Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hi Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery (Curated by Magdalene Odundo, OBE)

2017 Endangered Ark - Honolulu, Hi Ark of the Unicorns Gallery

2016 Hawai'i Craftsmen - 49th Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hi Honolulu Museum of Art School (Curated by Cindi Strauss)

2016 In, Of, or About Fiber, Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu, HI (Curated by...