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2022 Museum of Arts and Design acquires work by Deborah Kruger
A New Home for Accidentals and Ropa Pintada In a year full of sales, shows and prizes, here’s the best news yet. My favorite contemporary
Accidentals is a mural sized piece created by cutting strips of my screen printed sheets of recycled plastic bags. There is also text in endangered languages and I imagined this as a giant sized artist book. Since so much of the process of making this piece was random, the title became Accidentals. This also describes birds that are found outside of their normal habitat. Making Accidentals took me way out of my comfort zone. Trusting the convoluted process (read blog about making Accidentals…) was a lesson in remembering that like parents, artists just start the piece and then it has a life of its own. Accidentals was chosen for a 2023 exhibition in Venice as part of Deborah Kruger’s Arte Laguna Prize.
Medium: Screen printing on recycled plastic, sewing, cutting and wrapping
Size: 92 x 167 x 6” Date: 2020
Photography: Carlos Diaz Corona
A New Home for Accidentals and Ropa Pintada In a year full of sales, shows and prizes, here’s the best news yet. My favorite contemporary
In a recent artist interview in the Textile Curator blog, the curator asked how long a piece took to complete. There was really no way to answer but the story behind Accidentals is a good case in point.
Two years ago I pinned up about 90 sheets of my silk screened plastic sheets onto a wall in my studio. It looked like a crazy quilt. I had an idea about making an oversize artist book. It was interesting but not extraordinary.
Curator Micheal Swank had his eye on an additional gallery space in his Colonia Juarez building for two years and when the space became available
Fibre Arts Australia has just produced the inaugural issue of a new textile e-zine that includes work by some of the world’s most innovative artists
As you know, I have a studio in Durham, NC where I have family and textile colleagues. Voyage Raleigh contacted me for an interview and
You just never know where the next article is coming from I was contacted by a writer from the Netherlands last fall about being interviewed