Bold Thread Installation Takes over Crystal Bridges Gabriel Dawe http://ift.tt/1BQVcB9 Gabriel Dawe has created one of his delicate, large-scale hanging installations of colored thread at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art , Bentonville, Arkansas, as part of the ambitious new exhibition “ State of the Art ,” reports PBS (see “ State of the Art at Crystal Bridges: Pure Pop for Now People ”).The show is part of Crystal Bridge’s efforts to showcase “under-recognized” American artists who work outside New York and LA. The Mexican-born Dawe is one of three Dallas-based artists featured in the massive show, which includes no fewer than 227 works selected following a nation-wide search.Dawe’s contribution is Plexus No. 27 , a spiderweb-like sculptural installation made of 60 miles of thread in a gradient of different colors looped through countless mounted hooks with the help of an extension hook that served as a giant needle. Like all of Dawe’s thread works, the C