NYTM 2025 Multiple Days Events
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber
In person / Exhibition / Quilting
Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric and Fiber features textile artist Anette Millington and origami artist Omer Shalev in the Composite Gallery at the National Museum of Mathematics. In Infinite Forms, fabric and paper become portals into other worlds. Anette Millington shapes quilted and printed textiles into precise tetrahedra, stacking and arranging them into vibrant structures that seem to breathe, twist, or hover in mid-motion. Omer Shalev folds single sheets of paper into impossibly intricate stars, their crisp geometry radiating a quiet, cosmic energy. Each artist begins with simple shapes, yet their work expands those forms into something vast, at once architectural, organic, and dreamlike.
Millington’s sculptures rise like living columns and unfurl like swirling galaxies, their surfaces alive with patterns that echo both nature and mathematics. Shalev’s folded constellations hang in space, catching light and shadow in a way that feels almost celestial. Together, they invite you to see geometry not as an abstraction, but as something you can touch, walk around, and inhabit – a meeting place between the precision of mathematics and the fluidity of human imagination.
This exhibition is a conversation between two languages of making: the soft, stitched, and layered language of cloth, and the sharp, disciplined folds of paper. In Millington’s hands, pattern becomes a pulse; in Shalev’s, structure becomes starlight. Infinite Forms: Facets, Fabric, and Fiber reveals how symmetry, pattern, and dimension can cross material boundaries to create something more than the sum of its parts: a space where logic and wonder are inseparable, and where the infinite feels close enough to hold.
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Anette Millington explores how visual patterns and textile embellishments convey meaning and communicate. She creates textile sculptures, prints, quilts, and collaborative design projects. As an art and design educator, Anette specializes in reflective pedagogy, materials-based thinking, and interdisciplinary methods. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Textiles Program and Assistant Professor of Fashion Systems and Materiality at Parsons School of Design.