WASHINGTON, PA (March 1, 2016)—华盛顿 & 杰斐逊学院(W&J)下 奥林美术馆 opening will feature the delicate and dreamlike thread drawings of 多伦多-based artist 阿曼达McCavour.
The opening reception and artist talk begins March 11 at 6 p.m. 到晚上7:30.m. and McCavour’s artwork will be in Olin until April 3. McCavour will present an installation entitled"Pink Field, 蓝色的雾," part of her “Neon Bloom” series, which will consist a suspended field of neon pink flowers with blue embroidered “Spirographs” to create a large colorful environment.
“Using ideas around the space of the garden, 还有丝花, this piece is a new installation/embroidery work based on an imagined and abstracted field of flowers,麦卡沃说. “The large installation work is growing and will be comprised of thousands of these pieces installed on the floor of the gallery creating a field of flowers and a field of color. Visitors would be able to walk through the colorful field through paths, and would be surrounded by the work, their movement also being controlled by the piece.”
By using only a sewing machine, 水溶性纤维, and thread McCavour creates colorful images through this unique art medium, which McCavour chose because of her interest in thread’s properties of delicacy, 行, 和触摸.
“I like thread's vulnerability. Creating images and installations out of embroidered parts allows me to create ephemeral pieces that are both in a space but also seemingly on the verge of not being there,麦卡沃说. “My interest in embroidery stems from an interest in 行. I am interested and excited by the potential thread has to create both readable images and abstract images … We feel [fibers] often, they are right next to our skin when we are wearing clothes. I like how when I use an embroidered image that this might be in the back of people's minds, that looking at an embroidered piece also becomes about this memory of touch, 触摸柔软的东西, of what the piece might feel like if you were to touch it.”
The accumulation of time and material, and the hard work that McCavour puts into her artwork, is another aspect that she enjoys about thread drawing.
“Spending lots of time at a sewing machine and building up the embroidered thread pieces informs my work as well. 线的堆积, which is what holds the pieces together, is accompanied by an accumulation of time,麦卡沃说.
McCavour lives and works in 多伦多, 加拿大. She received her MFA from Temple University, 费城, PA and her BFA from York University, 多伦多, 安大略, 加拿大.
**All 奥林美术馆 events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. The Gallery is open seven days a week from noon to 7 p.m. during exhibitions, and is closed during college breaks. The Gallery is in 奥林美术中心 at 285 East Wheeling Street, 华盛顿, Pa. 15301.
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