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"My Facebook Series: #1 Touch Me", made from wool fulled and stitched, 10" x 10", $600
"My Facebook Series: #2 See Me", wool, fulled, needle felted, 10" x 10", $600
"My Facebook Series: #3 Feel Me", wool, fulled, needle felted, 10" x 10", $600
"My Facebook Series: #4 Know Me", wool, fulled, needle felted, 10" x 10", $600
"Three Sisters Series: The Conservationist", wool, fulled, pieced, needle felted,
quilted, linen backing, 20" x 20", $900.
"Three Sisters Series: The Swimmer", wool, fulled, pieced, needle felted,
quilted, linen backed, 20" x 20", $900
"Red Hand", wool, fulled, stitched, 78" x 36", $3500
"Catch", wool, fulled, stitched, quilted, linen backing, 47" x 34", $2800
The Dreamer", wool,fulled, stitched, 78" x 38", $3500
Exhibition at Hibberd McGrath Gallery
February 19 - March 14, 2010
The “Black and White” exhibit at the Hibberd McGrath Gallery,Breckenridge,Colorado is a collection of my recent textile work, in fabric and in paper. I have been working with black and white colors in my work for many years as a visual means to enhance other colors. In this current body of work, I took the opportunity to use it in a narrative way by using these colors symbolically; and referencing ideas I had about personal identity. Black is powerful and mysterious; white is energetic clarity. Together these opposites create visual balance and have the ability to communicate ideas in a very graphic way .
A series of four small portraits made from cut gesso paper combine real and imaginary images of characters suggestive to the opposites of “good and evil”. In their intimate size, however, I wanted to convey their personalities as more ambiguous and thus open to interpretations.
The group of 4 squares titled “My Facebook” is a pun to the iconic head and shoulders image you see throughout the internet .For me identity is much more than a face, and as the titles suggest, ”Touch Me” , “Feel Me ”,”See Me”, and “Know Me” go beyond the superficial. The Three Sisters series explores the diversity of myself and my two sisters , all whose interests vary.. “The Swimmer” is a self portrait. Throughout the work, as a way to connect the story , I use s lines of white cloth that are sewn into black cloth and then the opposite ,of white into black. “The Dreamer” , designed for either wall hanging or functional blanket, welcomes all to dream , bearing gifts and offerings to those who wish to do so. The process of mark making is a focus throughout the work . In “Catch” the drawn lines actually mimic the weave structure of the woven base cloth. “Drawings “ of sewn lines are stitched into the wool cloth and then the fabrics are transformed by the wet process of felting .Through this transformational process, the drawings get embedded into the base cloth. The stories within all of these pieces are connected both on and beneath the surface of the cloth. These lines are like a memory, a story of characters and events that also reveal the artisits’ hand as well as the spirit. |
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