Mop

Exposed
Betsy Timmer’s work astounds, amazes, and creates extreme revulsion and extreme compassion in me as a viewer.  Her fiber sculptures explore the body and the role of the female in a simultaneously whimsical and grotesque way.  In her most recent series embodiment she re-creates everyday household objects through the form of the human body.

Table legs
The [...]

Recently the amazing artist Cathy Mclaurin forwarded me information on the artist Samantha Fields.   I was so glad she let me know about Samantha as I am blown away and oh so inspired by the installations she creates.

Samantha creates large scale installations that explore the ideas of home, mother, memory, and the domestic. She [...]

I am mesmerized by the sweet simplicity of the embroidered drawings of artist Megan Ileana.  Megan has created a lovely blog in which she shares quiet intimate moments embroidered.  It reads almost like a visual diary of a young women’s life.

Her stitches are simple and straightforward.  Her simple line drawing technique moves the heart in [...]

Half Seen
I am moved by the haunting and technically amazing large scale weaving’s of fiber artist Lia Cook.  Her very large scale portraits remind me in a way of Christian Boltanski’s work.  The haunting eyes, quiet faces, almost blank of expression. Both playing with memory and blurring the lines of remembrance and memory.

Unmask: Beach [...]

Mr. Slit

Gowanus 2004, a work inspired by the area near my old studio installed at my alumni.
As I embark on two larger installation pieces in my own practice I am drawn to look at some artists who have braved scale while working in fiber.  Sheila Pepe is by no means an emerging artist she has [...]

Good bye.

Broken Home #2

Good Bye

I have always loved and been fascinated by the art of weaving- but have rarely seen work with a narrative and conceptual back ground that works.  There are many contemporary weavers making gorgeous paintings with thread but I have never seen such contemporary and conceptual woven work as that of artist [...]