Lingering
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Completed
2015
Medium
Handwoven Wool, Linen & Silk on Linen Warp
Dimensions
29" x 8'5.5"
Description
I have spent a lifetime deeply enmeshed in abstraction - it is the way I see and process the world around me. Architecture and landscape - along with the ways in which they interact - are my primary subjects. The transitory nature of atmospheric color, and the strong emotions we connect to these fleeting moments of ocular pleasure, inform this body of work. I am especially interested in dawn and dusk, when magical moments of intense color are experienced and remembered, but seldom in their fullness. We are allowed to dream of what is behind/beyond the color on the surface. “Lingering” addresses our memory of the day to night transition as we are enveloped by the darkness of night. “Before the Stars” is a more playful reaction to the intensity of atmospheric color and investigates the physical/tangible strength of that color. Most art contains some level of environmental, political or social commentary. My interest in the contemporary connections to color and meaning dictates that these tapestries are grounded in the current discussions of today. Spanning all of my work is a serious investigation of what it means to weave tapestries in the 21st century - to create an image/object that is built row by row on a grid system. The resulting work must then transcend its process while still respecting it. Materials are selected for their reflective properties - from very matte (wool) to lightly glowing (silk). The wools and silks are hand dyed - or the natural color of the fiber is used. My knowledge of weaving and dyeing informs the work at all levels of development.
About this Artist
Susan Iverson
Susan Iverson is a distinguished textile artist and Professor Emerita, having retired from the School of the Arts, Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her tapestries, woven in her rural Virginia studio, are widely exhibited in both national and international exhibitions. Susan Iverson’s home and studio are located in rural Virginia. In 2015 she retired from her position as a Professor in the School of the Arts, Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and in Canada, Italy, Poland, Australia and Uzbekistan. She is included in many collections including The Art in Embassies Program, Capital One, the Avenir Museum (CO) and the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. She earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and a BFA from Colorado State University in Ft.…
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