The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 25, 2025
Untitled Noren Partition (23)
2009
(American, b. 1971)
Overall: 170.2 x 184.2 cm (67 x 72 1/2 in.)
Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 2012.50
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Ricketts grows, harvests, and processes all of his indigo dyes naturally.Description
Ricketts designs textiles using the same techniques Japanese indigo workers perfected over centuries. The doorway curtain, or noren, first appeared in Japan during the Heian Period (794–1185). These colorful curtains often adorn the outside of shops and buildings throughout Japan and signify to the customer what types of goods or services are inside. Ricketts subverts the use of noren as an object that separates spaces by using his weaving and dyeing process to connect himself and his viewers to thousands of years of traditional crafting.- Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 21 archive.org
- Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1-September 25, 2022).
- {{cite web|title=Untitled Noren Partition (23)|url=false|author=Rowland Ricketts|year=2009|access-date=25 March 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.50