Digital painting transformed into a textural landform, a hand woven digital Jacquard relief, waking up its malleability, forming by hand the 3D topography into ridges.
The five colors of warp, running vertically, were hand dyed with natural dyes. These different color fields change the visual appearance of the weft threads as they move across the loom, creating an undulating landscape. This is accentuated with the malleable fishing wire and enameled copper wire in the weft. The textile installation moves from a flat image into a sculpted form that projects out into space, a metaphor for effects of climate change originating in the collaboration of natural forms, into disrupted entropic processes.
In this weaving, the grid of metallic threads represents a rigid social architecture, contrasting with organic forms represented by abstracted shapes of lichens. Inspired by the mycelium - a symbiotic, interdependent community of diverse species with complex networks of entangled fibrous networks, this weaving aims to integrate differences. The metaphorical bridge is the center area, negotiating between these two opposites, and disrupting the disparities. The hand knit enameled copper wire undulates on the surface creating a resonance between these two.
Natural forms are expressed through the integration of environmental materials of silk and paper. The hand is present in the passing of the shuttle back and forth across the loom, and in the hand spinning of the silk by artists in Bengal. This hand spinning process creates an uneven, textured silk.
Artists Reception
June 4, 2022 | 5-8 PM
Gallery hours: Friday thru Sunday 12- 5 PM
Free and open to the public. ADA accessible.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City has acquired four coded algorithmic drawings created in 1975, and this digital textile created in 1979 for their Digital Art Collection. They will be included in the exhibition there titled "Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018" from September 28, 2018 to April 14, 2019.
This exhibition is organized by Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Buckbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research, with Clémence White, Curatorial Assistant.
This acquisition is entitled Curvilinear Perspective. Coded Algorithmic Textile, Color Xerography Heat Transfer onto Polyester, 1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, Digital Art Collection, Coded Algorithmic Drawing. Ink on Paper, 1975
Whitney Museum of American Art, Digital Art Collection, Coded Algorithmic Drawing. Ink on Paper, 1975
Whitney Museum of American Art, Digital Art Collection, Coded Algorithmic Drawing. Ink on Paper, 1975
Digital Photographic Layered Textiles, Dye
Sublimation, Foreground Layer Polyester Voile,
Background Layer Polyester Charmeuse, 2001
See works in the gallery
Upcoming show: Linn Benton Community College Art Gallery, Fall 2018
I am creating new artwork with a TC2 Digital Weaving Norway, Jacquard Loom.
Three colors use three color yarns plus the white warp. Four colors use four color yarns plus white warp.
Prints Commissioned by Black Box Gallery in Copenhagen, blackboxgallery.dk
Collaborating with Master Printmaker Mark Mahaffey, Portland Oregon.
The Northwest Film Center and the Oregon Arts Commission are pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship: Michael Turner and Joan Truckenbrod.
Corvallis video artist, Truckenbrod, creates video sculptural installations in which the narrative of video projection intervenes in the cultural meaning of an object. The project outlined in her application, titled SEARCHING ESTUARINE SPACES, involves recording the fluctuating state of estuaries around Oregon and creating physical structures to be projected upon.