Teresa Lanceta (Spanish, b. 1951), Untitled / Sin Título, 1992. Wool, cotton, and viscose, 112 1/4 x 77 1/8 in. (285 x 196 cm). Photo by Joaquín Cortés, courtesy of Teresa Lanceta – 1 Mira Gallery, Madrid.
Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Teresa Lanceta
Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
February 18 – June 16, 2024
For the first time in its nearly 60-year history, the Meadows Museum will present a solo exhibition by a textile artist in its exhibition, Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Teresa Lanceta. Widely recognized for her large-scale and detailed tapestries, Lanceta was recently awarded her country’s highest honor for visual artists—the Spanish National Prize for Fine Arts. The Meadows Museum exhibition will feature a selection of her weavings, painted and sewn fabric, and pencil drawings. Lanceta is the second artist to participate in the MAS: Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight program.
Teresa Lanceta (b. 1951, Barcelona) is known for her intricate, colorful textiles. She adopted weaving as her preferred form of artistic expression in the early 1970s, seeing it as a medium ideally suited to bridging the divide between art and craft. Lanceta’s methodology emerges from a deeply reciprocal engagement of artistic traditions and sustained dialogues across geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic environments; most significantly, her time living in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona and her travels to the Middle Atlas region of Morocco.
To learn more about Teresa Lanceta and the Meadows/ARCO Spotlight Program, click here.