Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Precious Lovell

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ Leave a comment

Precious Lovell is a North Carolina State University professor and designer who has woven history into a collection of clothing designs, revealing the stories and identity of women and female ancestors from a personal and global standpoint.The inaugural Brightwork Fellow at Anchorlight in Raleigh, this artist reframes fabric, sewing and history through her provocative pieces.Lovell’s experience of growing up in the 60’s and 70’s in a small North Carolina town deeply impacted her art practice in multiple ways.Lovell’s work exposes her audience to people of African descent who have been left out of the traditional historical narrative.Her work explores personal experiences as well as history and contemporary issues.

The cultural significance, storytelling, aesthetic, and technical qualities of traditional textiles and clothing, particularly those of the African Diaspora, greatly influence her work.

More of Precious Lovell‘s amazing work can be found at https://www.preciousdlovell.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Hinke Schreuders

January 13, 2021January 16, 2021 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 10 Comments

Hinke Schreuders has been making small paintings or drawings on canvas with needle and thread since 2002. She draws on both 1950s advertising images of women and personal photographic material, attached them to linen, then added embroidery and designs that heightens the beauty of the photos.Her technique, embroidery, appears to be innocent, but her carefully constructed compositions evoke associations with more sinister undercurrents in a language that is prosaic and poetic at the same time. Ideas such as abstracted bubbles, flowers, and embroidery that resembles old-fashioned brocade drift in and out around the images.Schreuders art showcases real women behind the colors and patterns.With the added dimension of the surface embroidery, both the handiwork and the photo beneath become a new entity.Schreuders says she seeks to “subtly confuse notions of feminine vulnerability and reinforce the position of embroidery as an artistic medium.”