Overall, I enjoyed viewing her work. As I stated before, I never thought of embroidery as a form of art and the pieces that are created are interesting to view and to touch.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Courtney Martin; Assignment #3: Erin Endicott Lecture
I chose to attend Erin Endicott's artist lecture. She is a contemporary embroidery artist. When I first think of embroidery, I think of people having their names sewed onto jackets or grandmothers sewing floral designs to hang on their wall. After hearing Erin Endicott's lecture, I quickly realized that there is more to it. She began with showing us her work from graduate school, which included a lot of mixed media work. She said that her background was in drawing and painting and she tried to combine the two in the majority of her work. She also described walnut ink, which she began to use in the majority of her works. One image that I enjoyed was a piece that included the page of a book with red thread covering all of the text with a painted/drawn image next to it. Next, she showed us her more recent work, which includes working with wounds using embroidery, walnut ink, and cloth material. She said that the fabric she uses is something that is passed down throughout her family, such as their family holiday table cloth that her grandmother gave her and her son's christening gown. The main subject of her work is wounds. She uses only thread and the walnut ink to create her work, which I thought was very interesting. She can literally fit all of her needed materials in one small box. Also, the main aspect of her work is more focused on the process. Her process focuses on intricately sewing these abstract images that take a lot of time and focus.
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