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“Pattern Women explores expressions of the body
and the human condition. It is a se- ries of my mixed-media paintings of women where
I use sewing pattern templates as the underlying support on watercolor paper and constructed box- es. In these works I bring a living quality to flat inanimate patterns, by turning the original shapes into organic forms without the use of actual human figures. I create a literal transformation in which a sewing pattern for a sleeve becomes a leg; a leg becomes a torso, the pattern of a pocket becomes a breast and other template forms are transfigured into a variety of exploited images. My placement of the original templates, along with the use of textur- al painting, augments the works spatial qualities. I paint the surface with multiple layers of transpar- ent and opaque acrylic washes. This allows original sewing instructions to still be visible throughout the art work, providing a contradiction, a tension, be- tween the directive of the printed instructions and the reality of the painted images.”
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