Description

Fabric surrounds us. It is on our bodies, in our space, and moves with us. In my work, I translate found, donated and repurposed fabrics into densely patterned fabric installations and picture planes. Using the language of color field painting combined with a gestural and a bit rebellious approach to quilt making, disparate color combinations, organic formations and shifting shapes merge. Zigzags of fabric brush strokes pulse on and off the wall, building a soft geometry, transcending the original form and function of the fabric.

Patchworking the space through a slow process of sewing, cutting, and collaging fabric, an accumulation of sewn samplers fuse into large-scale panoramas. Quick collage cutting of fabrics and haphazard machine sewn stitching that resembles drawn lines fuse technicolor swatches into an incremental immersive whole, envelop and imbed the viewer in a soft emotive setting. I fill the peripheral view with saturated color, the repetitions of rectangular striations coupled with meandering sewn lines cutting through the picture plane. The density of patterning stretches across surfaces, suggesting expansive views of imagined waterways, skyscapes, and erosions, striations or something and somewhere in between.

The work echoes the material’s site of collection and the environment. Donated domestic textiles and utilitarian fabrics are renewed, converging together on my constructed surfaces and transcending their original uses and symbolism. Deconstructed denim jeans transform into shades of blue backgrounds; hundreds of tee shirts cut into squares combine into pixelated asymmetric planes. In the collective whole, collected fabrics become a stitched and seamless community, symbolizing a tactile, human moment in time.