300px, James Siena rug for BravinLee editions
BravinLee programs is an art dealing and curatorial partnership of Karin Bravin and John Post Lee. They also produce artist-designed hand-knotted rugs, made in Nepal.
In April 2025, BravinLee opened "The Golden Thread 2" in an historic building located at 207 Front Street in New York's South Street Seaport. The exhibition includes over 60 fiber artists including: Liv Aanrud, Alissa Alfonso, Abdolreza Aminlari, Paolo Arao, Natalie Baxter, Felix Beaudry, Sammy Bennett, Montrel Beverly, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Jess Blaustein, Chris Bogia, Eileen Braun, Jennifer Cecere, Ruby Chishti, Willie Cole, Poppy Deltadawn, Rima Day, Sam Dienst, Lesley Dill, Ali Dipp, Lucia Engstrom, Mark Fleuridor, Terri Friedman, Manuela Gonzalez, Françoise Grossen, Tali Halpern, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Valerie Hegarty, Ana María Hernando, Candace Hicks, Rashid Johnson, Traci Johnson, Deborah Kass, Anna Kunz, Lauren Luloff, Karen Margolis, Ruben Marroquin, Caitlin McCormack, Lior Modan, Tomo Mori, Ellie Murphy, Thomas Nozkowski, Tura OliveiraMia Pearlman, Sheila Pepe, Julie Peppito, Debra Rapoport, Walter Robinson, Josie Love Roebuck, Baylee Schmitt, Sylvia Schwartz, Michelle Segre, Manju Shandler, Fran Siegel, Emily Silver, Jacqueline Surdell, Rhian Swierat,
Suzanne Tick, Trish Tillman, Tiny Pricks Project (Diana Weymar), Maris Van Vlack, Cyle Warner, Rachel Mica Weiss, Ulla-Stina Wikander, Christopher Wool, and Halley Zien.
In 2006, the gallery organized a public art project called "Studio in the Park" that brought 11
site-specific art
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by commercial artists, and independently, and can ...
works artworks to
Riverside Park in upper Manhattan.
[Vogel, Carol]
"Inside Art"
. New York Times. May 5, 2006.
One of the gallery's programs involves working with artists who design limited edition hand-knotted rugs. Rugs have been designed by
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson (born 1977) is an American artist who produces conceptual artist, conceptual post-black art. Johnson first received critical attention in 2001 at the age of 24, when his work was included in ''Freestyle Exhibition, Freestyle'' (20 ...
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Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. ,
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
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Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood (born 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles.
Early life and education
Raised in Boston, Wood is the child of "art-inclined parents". Wood grew up surrounded by his grandfather's art collection ...
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Christopher Wool
Christopher Wool (born 1955) is an American artist. Since the 1980s, Wool's art has incorporated issues surrounding post-conceptual ideas.
Early life and career
Wool was born in Chicago, Illinois to Glorye and Ira Wool, a molecular biologist and ...
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Thomas Nozkowski
Thomas Nozkowski (March 23, 1944 – May 9, 2019) was an American contemporary painter. He achieved a place of prominence through his small scale paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language.
Early life and education
Nozkowski ...
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Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) is an American abstract painter based in New York City whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and by Thaddaeus Ropac.
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and
James Welling
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist, photographer and educator living in New York City. He attended Carnegie-Mellon University where he studied drawing with Gandy Brodie and at the University of Pittsburgh where ...
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Willie Cole
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and others.
BravinLee programs opened in 1991 to represent artists and collaborate with colleagues and institutions on a project-by-project basis.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://bravinlee.com
New York Times article on public art projects
1991 establishments in New York City