Bruma W

Olga de Amaral

2018

Linen, cotton, gesso, acrylic, Japanese paper, and wood

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Olga de Amaral (born 1932 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a pioneering fiber artist best known for her large-scale, abstract, fiber-based works, which evoke her local heritage through weaving techniques that are in dialogue with contemporary makers from across the globe. Amaral was one of the few South American fiber artists to receive international acclaim for her work in the 1960s and ’70s, due in great part to her reconciliation of local traditions with global developments in the art world. Amaral is among the first artists to incorporate spiral-wrapping and plaiting techniques in fiber art. She has explored these innovations across nume