191 - Kerr Grabowski and Wendy Huhn, Arrowmont Collaborative Fiber Square, Value: $250

191

Title:  Arrowmont Collaborative Printed Fiber Square

Artist:  Kerr Grabowski and Wendy Huhn

Media:  Screenprinted, Embellished Textile

Dimensions:  24" x 20.5"

Value: $250

"Marks - textures, lines, images and symbols - My work in textiles and clothing stems from an interest in cultures where art is an integral part of daily life-where mark making is a natural activity, a part of the celebration of being." - Kerr Grabowski

"I am...a storyteller. The stories I tell through my work reflect the way I view the world, often a brash voice in a room of hushed tones. How one might interpret my work is, of course, unquestionably personal. Some things never change. I continue to work today much in the same way I did when I was young: hunting, scavenging, cutting, ripping, pasting, enlarging, reducing and waiting for the divine moment when everything falls into place." - Wendy Huhn

This colorful textile was the collaborative effort of Grabowski, Huhn, teaching assistant Vernon Bowen, and the entire Arrowmont class.

Kerr Grabowski's history as a fiber artist has been marked by her constant experimentation with and innovative approaches to dyeing and screening processes. She developed Deconstructed Screen Printing, a printing monoprinting technique allowing for a freer, more painterly approach to screen printing. Kerr successfully integrates her love of color, mark-making, and spontaneity with the challenge of creating whimsically elegant contemporary hand painted and screened silk fabrics and wearables.
Formerly Artist in Residence at Peters Valley Craft Center in NJ, Kerr now maintains a studio in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. She received a Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship, a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship. Kerr is published in Ornament, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Arts Design Book Six,Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art and Textiles Now. She exhibits and teaches all aspects of surface design internationally and is the author of two DVDs. http://www.kerrgrabowski.com/

Wendy Huhn was born in 1953 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1980. Huhn was the recipient of the Quilt Japan Award from the Nihon Vogue Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. She was awarded a Oregon Arts Commission grant which allowed her time to explore the ancient art of grave rubbing. Huhn currently lives and works in the Lost Creek Valley, nestled in the foothills of the Cascades. Huhn’s work is included in numerous public and private collections including: The Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York; Nihon Vogue, Tokyo, Japan; The Ardis and Robert James Collection of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska Sonny Kamm Collection, Los Angeles, California; Gail Brown Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the George Stroemple Collection in Portland, Oregon. https://www.wendyhuhn.com/

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