Point of View

David B. Brackett, artist

1956–2021

Point of View, 2015

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: quilting; jacquard woven cotton; piecing; hand-woven cotton

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 152.4 x 144.78 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 60 x 57 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2019.0003

Not on display

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The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

David Brackett began his career path with a degree in zoology before coming to KU to study weaving. He said he “loved the math of the loom,” explaining that principles of the loom were used to design the first computers. Point of View combines jacquard woven elements in the center of the work with hand weaving on the side panels. Brackett uses hand-dyed yarns for the handwoven elements of his textiles, and creates these on his own loom. He uses a computer to digitally create the Jacquard weaving designs, working from photographs from his travels, natural forms, and people he knows as inspiration. Point of View, like many of his works, is quilted and includes a cotton batting, making the work a quilt as well as a weaving. Brackett is currently a faculty member at the University of Kansas in the Department of Visual Art.

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists