This week’s gallery picks look at life through the lens of pattern and textiles.

*            *            *

1. A wide-ranging look at textiles from pre-Columbian weavings to modern fiber art, Navajo blankets to an examination of clothing in art and photography at Denver Art Museum
2. Alicia McCarthy’s vivid works weave together color, pattern and occasional lyrical or understatedly profound phrases at Jack Hanley Gallery
3. Taking cues from the post-industrial landscape, provisional models and makeshift networks, Thomas Berding explores how the planned and built environment and the traffic of more spontaneous gestures and improvisational DIY aesthetics inform each other at The Painting Center
4. Toy Box consists of 16 paintings that place childhood icons into compositions of reverence and majesty at Shooting Gallery
5. PRISM/LIVIN/ROOM is a fabric installation that breeches the public/private conversation by creating a physical duality between a living room and a fabric art installation at Allegra LaViola
6. Josh Faught’s work demonstrates the ability of fiber to be the source of both personal comfort and political agitation at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis