Art Cloth Mastery Program 2012: Lynne Brotman

Urban Landscape, 2014, 21" x 26"

silk, deconstructed screen printing with dye and paper

Urban Landscape - detail

Suburban, 2014, 21" x 26"

silk, deconstructed screen printing with dye and paper

Suburban - detail

Rural, 2014, 21" x 26"

silk, deconstructed screen printing with dye and paper

Rural - detail

Artist Statement

Symbology is the study of past and present symbols that have become engrained in our being. Symbols signify our existence and our connections with the external world; illustrating feelings such as "I have been here," " I believe this," and "I am like others”. They are markers on the road map of my work, both in their presentation and in their interpretation by the viewer. Symbols determine the colors and mediums incorporated into each piece. Building layers of color through processes including dyeing, fiber manipulation, printing, and mark-making; I embrace a journey replete with personal symbolism. My vision is to give voice to stories and experiences through the tactile medium of fiber.

Biography

Lynne Brotman is a fiber/mixed media artist based in Austin, Texas. Her work has been juried into several exhibitions including, The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles High Fiber (2012) and Fiber Art at Poudre Studio and Gallery (2013). Among other projects, she is currently working on a solo exhibition for Tokyo Electron's U.S. headquarters after her completion of an artist residency in Japan. Her work utilizes cross-cultural symbolism, especially pertaining to color and texture and its effect on our beliefs and actions.

Ms. Brotman previously completed a two-year Art Cloth Mastery program with Jane Dunnewold in San Antonio and has gone on to study with master Shibori artist, Bryan Whitehead. She is also a member of the Surface Design Association and Fiber Arts/Mixed Media (FAMM) community. She is active in raising awareness for fiber art, both nationally and locally.

See Lynne's website for additional information: lynnebrotmanfiberart.com

The Mastery Program

This exhibition represents three years of intense and dedicated study on the part of the participants. The Art Cloth Mastery Program 2012, in which they were enrolled, required five week long sessions in the San Antonio studio, in addition to demanding assignments which were addressed during the interim periods.

Artists interested in surface design processes are at a disadvantage in this country. Most opportunities for study require either enrollment on site at a university or college, or are offered as week-long workshops through adult education summer programming. The inability to relocate to a program venue inhibits artistic mastery, as does the limited experience of a week’s class without a systematic follow-up.

The Mastery Program was developed to address this reality. The selected participants study surface design techniques on cloth, and also color, design and the articulation of a personal visual language. Each artist is required to develop a research project related to the dyes, chemicals or paints used as part of the patterning palette. Assembled together, these projects will eventually become a catalogue of research to contribute to the surface design field at large.

Professional behavior is also a topic of discourse. Artists prepared a resume, visual documentation, an artist’s statement and a biography as part of the requirement for completion of the program.

This exhibition is a sampling of the finest work being presented by serious students of surface design today. I expect each of these artists will continue to generate studio work for exhibition after the program is completed. Initially, the work of these artists will be a featured exhibition at the international Houston Quilt festival in the Fall of 2014. Later, these artists may choose to extend their circle of influence by teaching. Others may decide to write a book or produce some other lasting contribution to the field. The future is rich with possibility. It has been my great pleasure to accompany them on this exciting path. I congratulate each on the efforts of the past two and a half years.

Art Cloth Mastery Program 2012

Click for details on each artist.

Pages

Lynne Brotman

No comments:

Post a Comment