Weaving the line from craft to art?
You decide.
All together now by Katrina Sánchez Standfield
All together now, 2023, Knitted yarn, fiberfill 70 x 52in, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
Fiber artist Katrina Sánchez Standfield’s giant textile sculptures take weaving to a whole new level. “My work explores ideas of community, healing, and renewal. My artworks require many individual parts to come together to make a whole.” (louisapenfold.com)
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Many artists leverage the versatility of weaving with a myriad of materials to create their works. Look at the variety, materials, and scale of these weavings!
Sergei Tchoban uses Corten steel to create a huge basket-weave facade
Artist Tammy Kanat thinks beyond the conventional rectangular loom to create massive organic shapes.
UK-based artist Suzie Grieve (Foraged Fibres) creates incredible tiny woven baskets from natural materials.
Say
“At the heart of my practice is a drive to elicit a multi-sensory experience that engages the audience’s desire to play” Kat Sánchez Stanfield
Name three reasons that Sánchez’s weavings might inspire play.
How do the materials used above impact your response to them?
Do you consider weaving art or craft? Why?
Do
Create a simple weaving using a homemade loom.
Get a sense of the scale of Sánchez's works
About Artist Katrina Sánchez
Katrina Sánchez Standfield is an interdisciplinary Panamanian-American artist based in Charlotte, NC. Her work explores themes of joy, community, and healing through vibrant, exaggerated weavings made with large knitted noodles, which enhance the warp and weft to create tactile, voluminous soft sculptures that push color and form into space. Her current body of work is deeply influenced by her early small-scale fiber works, which involved mending clothing by weaving with needle and thread as a restorative practice to process lived experiences and trauma, including the aftermath of a school campus mass shooting.
Sánchez considers stress and trauma to be universally shared experiences, as we all go through events that deeply challenge us. Her ambition with her work is to share playful, tactile works that offer optimism to viewers. Sánchez works with scale, texture, color, and touch to explore emotion and the relationships between our physical environments and ourselves.
Through her work, Sánchez creates a sense of collective joy that transcends individual experiences and unites communities. By creating a space for reflection, healing, and growth, Sanchez invites viewers to connect with themselves and with each other in a way that is both deeply personal and universal.
Kat also has an AMAZING Instagram account that shares images and videos of her fiber art.
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