Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 107: Leslie Pontz
Tell us about your work? The work that I’m doing at this stage of my career is sculpture, created by using a traditional crocheting technique with non-traditional media. The resulting three-dimensional organic crocheted forms, often suspended from above, combine materials like crocheted metal, monofilament, natural wool, linen, jute, wood and rusted iron elements allowing me…
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Tell us about your work? I work with found materials and have a sustainable approach to textiles, which is fast becoming a trend. This desire to re-use is part of an ethical choice. Clothing, plant materials, printed paper, I use whatever I find or am given. This started from need … I had little money…
Read MoreArtist Interview 105: Geri deGruy
Tell us about your work? First, most of my work is about using disparate elements (of materials and of self) and joining them together into a whole-ness. Art is a way that I creatively sew together the different fragments of my own life into something with a sense of integrity and coherence. I create art…
Read MoreArtist Interview 104: Suzanne Morlock
Tell us about your work? I am inclined to disregard the boundaries of earlier periods and instead conceive of my work as artistic hybridization. I grapple with issues related to personal and sociological themes rather than focusing primarily on materials or stylistic movements. My work explores tactility, interactivity and the underlying tenets of craft arts,…
Read MoreArtist Interview 103: Barbara De Pirro
Tell us about your work? My art is ignited by my obsession with nature, its brilliance of form and function and its resilience; at the same time its fragility and vulnerability. I create with a range of reclaimed materials, re-inventing and transforming them into sculptural forms. It began as an environmental statement, a re-creation of…
Read MoreArtist Interview 102: Kathryn Clark
Tell us about your work? My work explores economic and other prescient issues using the functional object as a medium. My last series addressed the USA foreclosure crisis. As a former urban planner I was acutely aware of the impact this would have on our cities, but very little was mentioned in the news about…
Read MoreArtist Interview 101: Noelle Hamlyn
Tell us about your work? Both process and outcome are essential qualities in my practice. I seek balance between conceptual ideas, technical execution and emotional timbre. Using texture to evoke imagery, I work to understand the relationship between materials and process; to reveal the relationship between haptic sensation and emotional resonance and to explore the…
Read MoreArtist Interview 100: Judith Mullen
Tell us about your work? I am a Chicago based artist living near the forest preserve in suburbia while maintaining a studio practice in the city. My sculptures, installations and paintings attempt to explore the nature/culture divide, transformation, migration and conservation. Artist: Judith Mullen I weave the natural world into the man-made world to create a…
Read MoreArtist Interview 99: Barbara J. Schneider
Tell us about your work? My on-going interest in the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi, finding beauty in things that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete is at the core of all of my artwork. I like to try and capture the essence of images made of light and movement, images that are infinitely variable. What does…
Read MoreArtist Interview 98: Merill Comeau
Tell us about your work? I am a fibre artist working with discarded, repurposed materials. I collage large, multi-sectioned, wall-hung murals. For the past three years I worked on a project titled Fragments of Eden, optimistically imagining a new garden arising from our debris. Currently I am working on an abstract series titled Edge of…
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