Orly Cogan: Tangled Up In You

Orly Cogan: Tangled Up In You - New Embroidery Work on Vintage Fabrics, June 02 – July 08, 2006 at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, IL. Also... Drawing by Orly Cogan at Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Works by Orly Cogan at her personal site. "...To paraphrase an old song, Orly Cogan enjoys being a girl, and her embroidered nudes offer a flip, hip irreverent take on the conventions of femininity. She achieves her signature look by stitching figures on dainty vintage fabrics. These found linens, which once served as table runners, bureau scarves and tablecloths in a more modest age, were already embroidered once by an earlier and more circumscribed generation of women. Cogan adds to these quaint decorations a layer of attitude that updates old-fashioned womanly crafts with a kind of happy-go-lucky postmodern perversity."