Amanda McCavour – Thread Drawings

Amanda McCavour is a textile artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and installation. Amanda uses a sewing machine and water soluble fabric to create these amazing thread drawings and installations. “It seems to be that the possibilities for fibre in contemporary art are […]

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Lisa Kellner – Paintings in Space

Lisa Kellner is an installation artist living and working in Virginia and Brooklyn, NY. She makes large scale, temporary installations that combine intricate microcosms with huge topographies. She paints and sews together thousands of organic, bulbous shapes out of silk organza creating a structure that operates both as a three dimensional painting in space and […]

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Carlie Trosclair: Human Body and Built Environments

Carlie Trosclair is an installation artist from New Orleans. She received her BFA from Loyola University in 2008, earned an MFA from Washington University in 2010 and currently is a Community Arts Training Institute Fellow with the Regional Arts Commission.  Carlie uses washed out tones,  curvilinear geometry, draping fabric and textured transparency for creating sculptural […]

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Yuko Takada Keller’s Pure World

Yuko Takada Keller is a Japanese Paper Artist based in Denmark. Yuko began her creative career designing and making woolen tapestries. She started using traditional Japanese “washi” paper but felt it didn’t have the level of transparency she desired.  Then she ran into tracing paper which gave her the effect she was looking for. While making 2-dimensional works […]

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