Friday Favorite: Christine Gedeon

4/26/2013

This Friday’s featured artist is Christine Gedeon!
I especially love her Plots series of stitched works!

Plot 3, thread, paint and fabric on raw canvas, 52 x 60 inches

She writes:
Using a sewing machine, fabric and paint on raw canvas, and inspired by aerial view landscape drawings and maps, I invent 'plots' that are neither true abstractions, nor complete landscapes but navigate between interpretative poles. With a limited palette and through an improvisational approach, these works are large in scale and hint to an unfamiliar impossible space, a space that allows viewers to detach and contemplate their relationship to the external world.

Plot 8, thread, paint and fabric on raw canvas, 54 x 58 inches

My most recent stitched works are inspired by the evolution of urban landscapes and how it ties to memory, focusing recently on New York City's topographical evolution. I use Google Earth and archival images to collect my data and use this information as a starting point to create this invented series of urban renewal projects.

Plot 9, fabric, thread and paint on raw canvas, 58 x 56 inches

OSH, Brooklyn (Plot re-visualized), fabric, thread and paint on raw black canvas, 54 x 32 inches

Find out more about by visiting her website.
TGIF!
Mary^

4 Comments

Crafty Dawn link

4/26/2013 09:44:07 pm

I like this concept very clever and great work Dxx

soulbrush link

4/27/2013 07:54:51 am

this is amazing. love it.

Jane Coquillon link

4/27/2013 04:31:06 pm

Christine's work is so very different, you can *almost* see both mapped landscapes and other shapes in each of her pieces here.
The last one puts me in mind of a person laying across the landscape.

Thank you for sharing a glimpse of such a different style of art with us, Mary :)