BIO

ANYA MOLYVIATIS (b.1994) creates immersive woven environments that merge fine art, design, and material research. Working in dense, three-dimensional textiles, she treats weaving as a spatial medium, one that shapes not only how a room looks, but how it sounds and how it feels to stand inside.

 

Raised between Europe and the United States, Anya's interest in how environments shape human perception led her from studying sustainable architecture to discovering weaving as a medium capable of holding both structure and emotion. After getting her BFA in Fibers at SCAD and apprenticing with master weavers, she built a practice centered on material exploration, spatial sensitivity, color theory, and a dimension most spaces are never designed for: sound. Her deep woven structures absorb and soften a room's acoustics, their color shifting as the light and the viewer move, making the work as much a part of a space's atmosphere as its surface.

 

Now based in Austin, she continues to evolve the dimensional vocabulary of her work through advanced weaving technology, custom dye processes, and the development of a new 80-harness loom in collaboration with AVL. Her studio practice focuses on woven spaces that invite presence, soften environments, and deepen sensory awareness, bridging the boundary between artwork and architecture across the interconnected worlds of art and design.

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ARTIST STATEMENT 

As a weaver, I explore how material, structure, and color shape the way we experience a space. My practice centers on multidimensional weaving, dense, three-dimensional forms that reach beyond the surface to become spatial, atmospheric, and acoustic. We design how a room looks and rarely how it sounds, yet sound shapes how a space feels long before we notice it. Through sculptural structures and shifting gradients, I make woven environments that soften a room's acoustics, shift color and light across their surface, and open subtle layers of perception.

 

Materiality is central to my process. I study how fibers hold weight, how a deep, dense weave absorbs and scatters sound, and, above all, how color behaves. Color, for me, is never fixed: in the depth of the weave it shifts with the light and the angle of the body, alive and never twice the same. I use it as a way into the senses; in its movement, the eye slows and feels it. By expanding weaving into three dimensions, I build works that change a space physically, gathering a stillness around them, as much as visually. Each piece is both artwork and acoustic surface.

 

Woven on a 40-harness dobby loom, with hand-dyed palettes and architectural thinking, my work begins in the body and the senses. What starts as color and structure opens into stillness, presence, and a heightened sense of being. The boundary between textile, sculpture, and atmosphere blurred.

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