alienlandscape.net Rebecca Levine Quigley textile artist
Who Am I? My Work in A Nutshell, Maybe.
ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST STATEMENT
I was educated as a weaver. My eye was drawn to the tactile, colorful nature of my surroundings.
Later I trained as an architect. Even as I worked at this profession my thoughts were still within the tactile realm, I was been learning new techniques, exploring materials and combining mediums all along.
Now I have begun producing a new body of work, one informed by the same influences as before, but now I am able to express my visions much more freely.
My work is new and old at the same time, driven by delight in the color and texture that has always been evocative to me, but in a way that is more playful and less constrained by boundaries than ever,
I am drawn again to fiber; to wool, to silk, to bamboo and to the ancient practice of felt making, as well as the equally historic activity of papermaking. Layering, stitching, combining texture, color and mark making with freedom is a celebration.
I move through space and time using fiber techniques, using felting, stitching and hand dying. Felting predates weaving in history. Mark-making is an early form of communicating, tied closely to the march of civilizations. Fiber threads through history as the human story has developed. I describe the world from the microscopic to the panoramic. Using natural dyes and vintage materials which may degrade with the passage of time, these textiles remind us that the passage of time is a concept that drives my work.
Later I trained as an architect. Even as I worked at this profession my thoughts were still within the tactile realm, I was been learning new techniques, exploring materials and combining mediums all along.
Now I have begun producing a new body of work, one informed by the same influences as before, but now I am able to express my visions much more freely.
My work is new and old at the same time, driven by delight in the color and texture that has always been evocative to me, but in a way that is more playful and less constrained by boundaries than ever,
I am drawn again to fiber; to wool, to silk, to bamboo and to the ancient practice of felt making, as well as the equally historic activity of papermaking. Layering, stitching, combining texture, color and mark making with freedom is a celebration.
I move through space and time using fiber techniques, using felting, stitching and hand dying. Felting predates weaving in history. Mark-making is an early form of communicating, tied closely to the march of civilizations. Fiber threads through history as the human story has developed. I describe the world from the microscopic to the panoramic. Using natural dyes and vintage materials which may degrade with the passage of time, these textiles remind us that the passage of time is a concept that drives my work.