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Collage, Fabric on cotton thread
Size: 18 W x 24 H x 2 D in
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This picture was Inspired by the passing of my father. I began making yarn paintings in 1969 as a student at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood New Jersey. I had been fooling around with paint in my parent's basement when one day I incorporated my mother's embroidery thread into a collage. Encouraged by my art teacher, John Merlino I continued working with thread and applied to art school. In college at The Cooper Union I kept yarn painting to my self. My professors preferred my drawings to my paintings. My painting professor, Jack Whitten, asked what we did during vacation. I volunteered that I'd spent the vacation working on a project but it wasn't exactly painting. After visiting my studio Jack told me to stick to string and he would consider them paintings. After collage I discovered at a Greenwich Village flea market that I actually hadn’t invented yarn painting, it was a traditional art form used by the Wixarika (Huichol) people of Mexico. In 1992 I received a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Mexico to meet fellow yarn painters and talk shop. I have maintained this relationship with Wixarika yarn painters by regularly returning to Mexico and hosting Wixarika artist in my Hoboken home.
Original Created:2022
Subjects:Portrait
Materials:cotton threadSoft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:Fine ArtPortraiture
Mediums:Fabric
Collage:Fabric on cotton thread
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 24 H x 2 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Yes
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The interface between my interior self and the outside world is the uniting concept behind my recent work I began making yarn paintings in 1969 while still in High School. I thought I had invented the technique. In college at The Cooper Union I first kept yarn painting to myself. My professors preferred my drawings to my paintings. My painting professor, Jack Whitten, asked what we did during vacation. I volunteered that I'd spent the vacation working on a project, but it wasn't exactly painting. After visiting my studio Jack told me to stick to yarn and he would consider them paintings. Seeing a yarn painting at a Greenwich Village flea market I discovered that yarn painting was a traditional art form among the Wixarika (Huichol) people of Mexico. In 1992 I received a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Mexico to meet fellow yarn painters and talk shop. Since my Fulbright I have maintained my relationship with fellow yarn painters both by returning to Mexico regularly and by hosting Wixarika artists in my home. I have also received Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (twice) and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.
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