acrylic/textile-- a series in progress
This work uses textiles--maritime rope, yarn, wool, thread, twine--as both symbolic and compositional elements. Using textiles allows me to exploit the symbolic resonances of e.g. rope and thread—connectivity and bonds, the stringiness of the human body--while also examining the relation of inner and outer in the paintings. This relation can be read variously as either a literal inside/outside of the materiality of the canvas, of the human body or other (organic) forms, or of a more psychological dimension. Formally, I am also interested in expanding the parameters of both painterly composition and the 2-d painting surface in ways that make the paintings more sculptural and kinetic.
This work uses textiles--maritime rope, yarn, wool, thread, twine--as both symbolic and compositional elements. Using textiles allows me to exploit the symbolic resonances of e.g. rope and thread—connectivity and bonds, the stringiness of the human body--while also examining the relation of inner and outer in the paintings. This relation can be read variously as either a literal inside/outside of the materiality of the canvas, of the human body or other (organic) forms, or of a more psychological dimension. Formally, I am also interested in expanding the parameters of both painterly composition and the 2-d painting surface in ways that make the paintings more sculptural and kinetic.
