ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | February + March 2019
FUSION AIR / Artist-In-Residence Program presents
Isabel McDowall (USA)
FUSION AIR / Artist-In-Residence Program presents
Isabel McDowall (USA)
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Artist statement:
The use of embroidery in portraiture is a way of utilizing fibers and color to represent abstract ideas about the self and of others. My fascination with faces is because they are what I love and fear the most. Ideas and emotions are difficult to formulate, but color and thread are very real. The manipulation of thread and the surrealist twist of the subject matter lends me some pause and clarity. It is a process of nonsensical feelings paired with surrealist nonsense.
A face is a canvas, behind which is full of meaning. My understanding of other people and of myself is in each face; like an odd, mixed self portrait.
The use of embroidery in portraiture is a way of utilizing fibers and color to represent abstract ideas about the self and of others. My fascination with faces is because they are what I love and fear the most. Ideas and emotions are difficult to formulate, but color and thread are very real. The manipulation of thread and the surrealist twist of the subject matter lends me some pause and clarity. It is a process of nonsensical feelings paired with surrealist nonsense.
A face is a canvas, behind which is full of meaning. My understanding of other people and of myself is in each face; like an odd, mixed self portrait.
FACES
Satin stitch is one of the most time consuming embroidery stitches. The results give thread a painterly quality.
I have a fascination with faces because they are what I love and fear the most. Hours of stitching gives them a new life and illusory effect.
Embroidery has a textural substance that drawing lacks which gives these faces a new life.
Satin stitch is one of the most time consuming embroidery stitches. The results give thread a painterly quality.
I have a fascination with faces because they are what I love and fear the most. Hours of stitching gives them a new life and illusory effect.
Embroidery has a textural substance that drawing lacks which gives these faces a new life.
Isabel (Izzy) McDowall works as a product designer and artist using traditional mediums and techniques to create atypical work. Always creating and drawing as a child, she decided to pursue a Bachelors in Product Design and Art at the University of Oregon to suite the functional and nonfunctional nature of her creative style.
Izzy works in both the two and three-dimensional, specializing in ceramics and fibers. What drives her work is to enhance daily life, explore human interactions with objects, and create visual narratives. With experiments in shape, form and texture, McDowall designs for interactions to be distinctive and memorable.
Izzy works in both the two and three-dimensional, specializing in ceramics and fibers. What drives her work is to enhance daily life, explore human interactions with objects, and create visual narratives. With experiments in shape, form and texture, McDowall designs for interactions to be distinctive and memorable.
