Eliza Bentz
With a history spanning millennia, weaving has long been engaged as a craft of function and necessity. In Through Line, Eliza Bentz nods to the distance between weaving’s history as a utilitarian arrangement and its contemporary presence within the scope of fine art. Forsaking the traditional loom and its formulaic woven structure, Bentz shifts the grid into a third dimension. Thus, the planar field of weaving transcends itself, each point of connection spiraling, tubular, towards an eventual locus. Each piece becomes a portal, a bridge, a pathway to be travelled in the imaginings between what once was and what is yet to come.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eliza Bentz is a fiber artist and sculptor from the barrier islands of Southeast Georgia. She works with natural, repurposed, and found materials to create fine art and objects. Her work is concerned with the intersection of craft history and industrialization and is made as a means to reclaim tactility and agency in a world concerned with consumption and convenience. Bentz completed her BFA in fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017 and has since gone on to exhibit and teach both nationally and internationally. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.