Eight years ago, painter Paolo Arao was invited to be a visiting artist with the Fibers and Materials Studies program at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. A curator there prompted Arao to transform three of his paintings into a tapestry using a digital Jacquard loom, which can take images uploaded from a computer and turn them into textile art. “It completely changed the trajectory of my work,” Arao says. “It was this fascinating moment where, in my bones, I felt like I should have been working with textiles all along.” Arao has been creating tapestries ever since, and a dozen of his works were recently part of a solo exhibition, Devotion, at the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
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