Reduced to Simplest Form

Parachute Without Bomb is made of “cotton and pins;” it’s art. It was made, like all the art at “Pip Culbert,” by razoring out the important parts of sewn things. Thus the parachute is the exact opposite of a parachute — reduced to seams only. Even more spookily, arranged as it is on the wall, it looks like nothing as much as a dreamcatcher, which might also be the opposite of a military parachute. Elsewhere in the show, the 70-year-old Briton pins up more of her gutted, spidery works — lots of quilts, whose rhythmic seam patterns recall Piet Mondrian’s minimalist paintings of the 1920s. Culbert also shows tote bags, “pinnys” (aprons, to us), and best of all, plain shirts. Our favorite is Green Shirt. Hanging unpinned on the wall, it has an amazing amount of style for a skeleton; fashion for a Giacometti figure, maybe. The odd solo pocket and a collection of ironing-board covers round out the collection.

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