Knitting shapes have long been defined by the human form. By moving the context of knitting from clothing geometry to sculpture, knitting becomes a medium with a link to a rich and complex fiber tradition that has the power of history behind it. To be able to turn a single strand of yarn into fiber building blocks with form and function, texture and color is also energizingly low tech.

Working in what has long been considered a traditional woman's medium, I aim to an artistic aesthetic informed by traditional craft, art and politics. My work aspires to dissolve the boundaries between craft and art, mindful of the historical context of the medium.

I knit to rejoin the frayed and unraveled places around me.

 

CURRENT & UPCOMING

Juror: Metaphoric Fibers, Untamed Knit & Crochet, The Textile Center, Minn, MI; 2010

Profiled in Knitting Art: 150 Innovative Works from 18 Contemporary Artists, by Karen Searle, Voyageur Press, October 2008

Sum of the Parts, Surface Design Association, Kansas City, MO, May 29-June 6, 2009. CD catalog. Show travels to Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; J. Wayne Stark Gallery, College Station, TX; Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS; and other venues through April 2010.

Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX Feb 6-April 1 2010

RECENT EXHIBITS

Best of Show, Fiber Directions 2009, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS, Jason Pollen, Juror

Loose Ends: Contemporary Fiber Arts, Invitational, The Fort Collins Lincoln Center, CO, Sept-Oct, 2009