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"…all of modern art is based on collage, creation out of fragmentation and  dissonance. . . . This is nowhere more apparent (in this exhibition) than in Tim  Harding's ritual of destruction and recreation . . . really a highly controlled form of  fabric mutilation.  Harding's technique is more than a rigorous form of textile design.   It is an art which comments on the nature of clothing as simultaneously concealing  and revealing what is further inside.  His garments are studies about cloth."

- Linda Dynett in  American Craft Magazine , Oct-Nov, 1983

 

"Tim Harding shows a series of astonishingly beautiful landscape coats . . . fabric  landscapes of extraordinary subtlety."

- Mary Abbe in the Minneapolis  Star Tribune , Jan. 25, 1990 

 

"Tim Harding's giant kimono like forms have the spectral qualities of figures arisen  from ancient tombs.  . . . there are implications of majesty, tatters and decay."

- Betty Freudenheim in  The New York Times , Dec. 3, 1989 

 

"Tim Harding uses cut perforations to create his meshes. . . . In  Shroud Series the result is fabric that, in effect, collapses; it has no continuum of warp and weft . . .  (In) that subtractive method . . . structure is taken away from a solid material, in this  case silk, and gravity is the force that opens up the mesh."

- Nancy Newman Press in the exhibition catalog " Noeuds et Filets:  Liens Spirituels" , USIA-Arts America, 1992

 

"Without sacrificing elegance, rigor of form, or modernity, Harding's work strikes a  universal chord by evoking the magical power of tribal ritual garments.  Harding's  slashed surfaces, frayed edges, and prismatic color subvert modern notions of fashion  and violate cultural taboos about the preciousness of clothing.  It is this unique  synthesis of tradition and innovation, the commonplace with the exotic, and fine art  with craft that imforms these garments with a compelling sensibility."

- Mason Riddle in the exhibition  catalog,  Harding-Kendall, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997

 

o t h e r   p u b l i c a t i o n s

 

The Kimono Inspiration by Rebecca Stevens & Yoshiko Wada, The Textile Museum with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996 ● Contemporary Quilts, by Hilary Morrow Fletcher, Lark Books, 1997, 1999, 2001 ● More than One: Studio Production, (exhibition catalog) by John Perreau, American Craft Museum, 1992 ● Understanding Art , (college text) by Lois Fichner-Rathus, Prentice Hall, 1989 ● Crafts Today:  Poetry of the Physical, (exhibition catalog) by Paul Smith and Edward Lucie-Smith, American Craft Museum, 1986 ● Art to Wear, by Julie Schafler Dale, Abbeville Press, 1986 ● Kwangju Biennial:  Art to Wear, (exhibition catalog) Kwangju Museum of Art, Korea, 1996, 2000