On and off the Walls

DRIFTLESS IN CHICAGO

Los Angeles-based Tanya Aguiñiga, a furniture designer and fiber artist, is exploring a whole new world—the Midwest—as Wingate Artist in Residence in the Wood/Furniture Department at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. For Aguiñiga, even travel time is fodder for her work, and from March 15 to June 7 Volume Gallery in Chicago will show Driftless Zone, which was inspired by her two-thousandmile trip from Los Angeles to Madison. The work on view uses weaving to explore the topography of the Paleozoic Plateau of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, also known as the Driftless Area because it escaped the final glacial drift of the era. The comparatively new Volume Gallery was founded by two veterans of Wright Auction, Claire Warner and Sam Vinz, to focus on the work of young American designers. wvvolumes.com