Ellen Bruxvoort Weaves Art at the Scale of Architecture

FIBROUS's own motto is "weaving form into function," and that is the right frame for Bruxvoort's practice. The studio specializes in bespoke woven art and custom fiber installations for commercial and residential spaces: site-specific pieces designed around a wall, a corner, a room's light and proportions. The vocabulary runs from tightly woven tapestry panels to her sculptural wrapped-rope forms, lines of color that loop and descend like drawings made of cord. The materials are warm and tactile in a way paint cannot be, which is exactly why designers keep reaching for them.

Bruxvoort is also a builder of rooms in another sense: she co-founded Broad Studios, East Austin's all-female art collective, part of the infrastructure that keeps working artists working here. That community instinct shows up in the practice itself, a studio that treats commissions as collaborations and has helped push fiber art from a craft-fair category into serious interiors across the country.

The portfolio of installations and woven work lives at fibrous.co, and the studio's day-to-day, works in progress, installs, and new commissions, runs on Instagram at @fibrous.co.

About this spotlight: an independent, unpaid feature, written because we admire the work, drawn from FIBROUS's own public pages. All artwork is the artist's; see it in full at fibrous.co.