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Artist weaves together photos, fabrics in ‘Digital Textiles’ |
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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| "Venice" by Patricia Mink |
Patricia Mink loves to layer. The artist uses a colorful combination of texture and design developed from traditional and nontraditional techniques.
“The images I print onto the fabrics are primarily from my own digital photographs, which have been combined and manipulated in Photoshop,” Mink said. “Generally, these photographs are from my travels and focus on crumbling structures and aging surfaces as visual subjects, rich in layers and metaphoric potential.
“Once the imagery has been developed in Photoshop, it is sent to an inkjet printer equipped with archival inks and printed onto pretreated paper-backed fabric,” she explained. “The resulting printed fabric is then incorporated into a layered ‘quilt’ form — although more specifically designed for the wall as with tapestries — using multiple layers of a variety of fabrics and ‘drawing’ back into the image through the use of hand and machine stitching.”
Her work is featured in an exhibit titled “Digital Textiles” through Sunday, April 13, in the Center for the Visual Arts Gallery on the Toledo Museum of Art Campus. The free, public exhibit may be viewed Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Mink is a professional artist and educator working in fibers. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has appeared in Surface Design, Fiberarts Magazine, Quilt National, Visions and Fiberarts Design Book 7.
She is an assistant professor of art and head of the Fibers Program in the Department of Art and Design at East Tennessee State University.
Specializing in digitally generated, inkjet printed fiber constructions, her recent research includes exploring low-tech approaches to high-tech applications.
Mink is a nominee for the 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award and the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship for 2006 from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
For more information, contact the UT Department of Art at 419.530.8300 or go to www.utoledo.edu/as/art.
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