Stacy Wiatrak

"Mother's Day (Hands & Seashells), " Mixed Media Textile, Signed

2006

"Minutiae II" is a fiber collage mixed media fiber collage by Jeanne Smith. The artist begins by dyeing background fabric, in this instance tie-dyeing, which creates an irregular pat...

"Minutiae V" is a fiber collage mixed media piece by Jeanne Smith. This abstract piece is mostly blue on the front and mostly green on the back. The artist wrote on a small beige-col...

A floral arrangement made of a variety of textiles, surrounding a portrait in the center. Portrait is of a woman in a black and white vignette. Quilted together with a golden and gli...

A floral arrangement made of a variety of textiles. Quilted together with a golden and glittery thread. Artist signed this piece in the lower right.

This textile is an excellent and unusual example of the work of Stacy Wiatrak, being both an artwork and a wearable garment. The artist uses appliqued ribbons, images of lilacs and b...

The present work is an excellent example of the flags and banners of Haitian Voodoo practice. It is constructed of cloth with hand-stitched glass beads and sequins, representing Danbala (also Damballa and Damballah, spelled on the flag "DAMBALAH"). Danbala depicts the spirit or loa of life. In Vodun practice, Danbala Wedo, along with his wife Ayida Wedo, are representative of birth and creation. They are in essence the divine mother and father of the universe. In the iconography, they are usually depicted together as two serpents, or sometimes as a serpent and a rainbow. The snake is symbolic of power, knowledge, and wisdom. Danbala is an especially popular deity and is often represented alone as St. Patrick or Moses, as both of these Christian figures performed miracles associated with snakes. This vévé shows the typical image of two snakes intertwined on a pole, accompanied by two flags. The imagery of Haitian Voodoo culture is derived from multiple sources, and the culture seems to have the ability to integrate the various sources from popular culture to catholic imagery into traditional African symbols, values and rituals. Flags like this one are meant to honor or invoke gods, as well as depict likenesses or attributes using dazzling displays of color. The relatively young age of this example shows the power and influence the imagery continues to have in Haiti to this day. 11 x 13.5 inches, artwork 19 x 21.5 inches, frame Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass within a gold gilt frame. Polk, Patrick Arthur. Haitian Vodou Flags...

Gerhar Richter, in collaboration with Vorwerk, made a special edition titled: 1024 Colors. The color palette by Richter is brought in with high quality pieces of carpet. *The images...

Temperature data for one of the 18 major river basins in the continental US, hemp, organic cotton dyed with plant- and insect-derived dyes and mineral mordants, petrochemical-derived...

Eva Vargo fuses paper and linen-thread materials into her weaving techniques. No. 55 (Book of Changes) was hand woven with linen, thread, paper strings and g...

In "Window Shopping," the artist, Jennifer Blalack, uses many different mediums to create the significant texture in this work. She uses the visual language of Robert Rauschenberg by combining everyday objects like fabric, house paint, plastic bags, string, and tissue paper to construct a narrative on canvas. In this work she uses bold purples, oranges, yellows, with accents of cream, red, and blue. Dispersed within the painting are cutouts of vibrant native dresses...

"Worlds" is a two panel piece, a diptych, with intricate sewn medallions of fabric and textiles. The work is multi-layered with impasto texture, acrylic layers intermixed with house...

"Wild in the Woods" fiber, wood, mixed media, 40 x 11 x 16, 1997. This mixed media textile sculpture was done by American fiber artist, Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937). The interlacing te...