Alt-Fibres
featuring Twinkie Chan, Ben Cuevas, and Mochimochi Land
October 1, 2016 through October 9, 2016

Alt-Fibres celebrated The Knitting Tree, L.A.’s move to Inglewood. This exhibition centers on lifelike, three-dimensional sculptures created using crochet and knitting techniques. Featuring work by crochet artist Twinkie Chan, local artist Ben Cuevas, and Anna Hrachovec from Mochimochi Land, this exhibition illustrates innovative ways to use yarn and craft.

Work on view includes Twinkie Chan’s whimiscal food-themed accessories, Ben Cuevas’ detailed internal organs, and Anna Hrachovec’s intricately knit mini-environments and figures.

Full press release

About the Artists

Twinkie Chan designs and crochets fun, food-themed accessories like cupcake scarves, hamburger mitts, and hot dog purses. She lives in San Francisco with two happy pups and an infamous rainbow wall of yarn.Twinkie’s unique work has been featured online, in print, and on television, from BuzzFeed to Mollie Makes to Crochet Today to HGTV. She has partnered with craft companies such as Michaels Stores, Lion Brand Yarn, Yarnspirations, and the Craft Yarn Council on to help promote their products and campaigns. Twinkie encourages everyone to have fun with their crafting and their fashion so that we can all feel yummy and make the world a yummier place.
twinkiechan.com/


Ben Cuevas is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans a wide range of mediums including installation, sculpture, fiber, photography, video, performance, and sound. Often incorporating several of these elements into any given piece, he makes use of digital media as a means of documentation. In light of its pluralistic qualities, he sees his work as a reflection on the condition of embodiment, exploring what it means to have a body, to inhabit a body, to be a body incarnated in, and interacting with this world.
bencuevas.com


Mochimochi Land was launched in 2007 as a place where knitted toys and people can live together in a spirit of tolerance. You too can advance human-toy understanding by knitting a new friend! The characters that inhabit Mochimochi Land are original designs by Anna Hrachovec, a knitter who lives in Chicago. Anna finds inspiration in characters like Hello Kitty, TV shows like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and illustrators like Dr Seuss. Anna’s knitted toys have been seen on Nickelodeon, featured on The Martha Stewart Show (twice), and featured in the Chicago Tribune and on Boing Boing, among other publications. She has written five books of patterns, the newest of which, Adventures in Mochimochi Land, is a combination storybook and pattern book.
Mochimochiland.com