...the day-to-day process of an obsessive "Maker".....
"Heart Center", 2008, 21" round, hand dyed velvet, standard & 3D embroidery, batting, taffeta, convex glass, frame.Labels: "contemporary embroidery art", "contemporary fiber art", "craft heart", "Embroidered heart", "heart art", "Heart Center", "textile art", "textile heart", 3D embroidery, contemporary art about the body
posted by Kate at 1:03 PM
Kate Kretz attended The Sorbonne in Paris, earned her BFA from SUNY Binghamton, and her MFA from The University of Georgia. She was BFA Director and an Associate Professor of Art at FIU in Miami for ten years. She currently works in her studio and gives lectures and workshops at various universities.
6 Comments:
Beautiful!
gorgeous and creepy! there's something very scared-hearty catholic about the colors. it also reminds me of 'sacred ovaries.'
thanks, guys....
I find this piece very striking but I am only judging from a jpeg. The 'heart' has a vast iconography. You make no mention of yours especially the thinking behind using embroidery?! Will it be put under glass as conservation will be a problem in the future?
I love this piece so much--I keep coming back to look at it. Would love to stare at it in person, but am on the other side of the country. It's really lovely and I expect to come back and sit with it some more.
Thanks! The piece will be in a show called "Raised in Craftivity" at The Wignall Museum in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, from Jan-March 2009
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