Lisa Cooley

Josh Faught in The New Yorker

January 28, 2010

"The young West Coast artist both sends up and pays homage to radical crafts. A scruffy tapestry titled “House Plant” is studded with bulbous spores and embellished with campy plastic pins with slogans like “Sorry Girls, I’m Gay.” Another piece involves a big denim bow, a laminated flyer for housecleaning services, and a button that reads, “Sorry I missed church. I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian.” Faught’s live-and-let-macramé attitude may be best represented here by a pair of tapestries whose embroidered ribbons read “My Bag” and “Not Your Bag.”