Patricia Sweetow Gallery is overjoyed to announce the accession of John Paul Morabito’s exquisite tapestry, Untitled (won’t you let me love you) at the deYoung Museum \ Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

We’d like to thank Laura L. Camerlengo, Textile Curator in Charge of Costume and Textile Arts | The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, for her enthusiastic support of the artist and her command of the critical conversation surrounding Morabito’s practice.

We’d also like to thank the Textile Arts Council, a curatorial support organization for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for their support of the acquisition. The tapestry was featured at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in the exhibition  John Paul Morabito | Dancing in the Night, May–August 2026.

The beaded tapestries of John Paul Morabito revolutionize weaving and textile traditions by overturning and redirecting our understanding of tapestry into a queer cosmology. The materials used—cotton, wool, linen, synthetic gold, and glass beads—oscillate between preciousness and artificiality, mirroring an unvarnished sensuality–as if bodies were roused to dance in electrified discos.

Morabito’s work offers tribute to generations that broke political and social barriers, only to succumb to AIDS. Most importantly, John Paul’s tapestries speak to futurity, as they elegantly carve a path to the pride and promise of queer community, space, and culture.

Occupying the position between painting, sculpture, and architecture, my tapestries engage concerns with visuality, space, and movement. With linen, cotton, wool, synthetic gold, and glass beads, I create glittering abstractions that materialize queer memory, grief, resistance, and world-building. My tapestries become maximalist and anachronistic memorials that retrace queer history as they reach for the future-dawning horizon. —JPM