I have been wanting to post images of Anna Torma's exquisite two sided embroidery that was part of the first Canadian Craft Biennial at the Burlington Art Gallery, Ontario since mid-October. The co-founders of the Biennial, Emma Quin (director of the Textile Museum of Canada) and Denis Longchamps (director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Burlington) indicate that the second Craft Biennial will happen in the spring of 2020. Good news for all of us who love art that is materially based.
This piece by Anna Torma uses her now familiar language of child-like drawings of monsters, here in combination with human figures. A very prolific artist who works completley in hand stitch, Anna's creates bodies of work for exhibition, such as
Superlayers Blood ties (and
also here) is a recent exhibit she held with her grown son. I have written about her work before (
here) but if you are interested in seeing her newest work, she is active
on facebook.
Look at the amount of stitching! These stitches are like drawn marks with coloured pencil.
The variety of scales and subjects in the imagery over whelms our senses.
It's different than anything I would do myself.
It throbs.
It excites the viewer.
The two sides of this piece are each beautiful
Black cloth backing, white cloth front.
The thread drawings join these two opposites.
Then the artist stitched through all images and backgrounds - everything -
with thick white thread so that the back looks as if caught in a snow storm, and the front is quieter.
Not erased, but muted.
and the edges.
Don't you want to touch?
5 comments:
Amazing! What an incredible accomplishment.
I love her work so much...TY
I love her work, thank you
WOW-I have never seen anything like this, again, you pull me in and teach me something! Thank you
Anna`s work is magnificent , for sure.
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