While a painting major in college, I took an elective in textile design and discovered batik and Shibori, traditional dyeing techniques from Asia that produce patterns on fabric. In love with the color geometries coming out of the dye bath I began to split my creative time between oil painting and fabric dying. Painting taught me to closely observe the physical world and explore the spatial powers of color while at the same time I was playing in the dye studio with abstract form and pattern. Both processes melded and influenced my work over the years.
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Dyed Textiles
Red Star, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, 44"x20", 2014
Queen of the Night, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, 39" x 80", 2015
Blue Mozart, resist-dyed shantung, fiber- reactive dyes, 23” x 70, 2015
Regeneration, resist-dyed cotton, fiber-reactive dye, 39' x 60", 2015
Replication, resist-dyed silk satin with fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 19” x 38”, 2015
Pink Mitosis, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 15” x 44”, 2015
Red Mitosis, resist-dyed shantung silk, fiber-reactive-dyes, thiox, 14”x 44”, 2015
In the Garden, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive-dyes, thiox, 15” x 44, 2015
In Bloom, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 15” x 44”, 2015
Reflection, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 15” x 44”, 2015
Sunspots, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015
Madame Butterfly, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015
Sequence, resist-dyed raw silk with fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015
Note To Rothko, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 20” x 22", 2015
Analagous Dream, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 44” x 15”, 2015
Shape Shift, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 44” x 15”, 2015
Mastery, textile pigment printed on felt with thermofax screens, 8" x 15", 2016
Blue Birds, fiber-reactive dye painted on silk shantung and printed textile pigment, 18" x 24, 2016