Sharmini Wirasekara “Pomp and Pageantry” by Sharmini Wirasekara is artwork for sale at Cambridge’s Mobilia Gallery.
With artworks ranging from tapestry and necklaces to lace-embroidered magnolia leaves, Mobilia Gallery’s “What to Collect Now” has an expansive and exquisite vision of textiles.
Mobilia is an art shop for pieces that double as bespoke gifts, so yes, every piece is for sale in the exhibit. None are quite accessible for the novice collector; each artwork costs at least several thousand dollars.
Yet even window shopping is worthwhile with these beautiful and wide-ranging works, every a masterful, inventive use of craft.
Joyce J. Scott, a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, makes a bright blue, collagelike piece with glass beads and peyote stitch in her piece “Blutz.” Sco