Stacy Wiatrak

Winter Vintage

2006

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.

"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...

"Mother's Day (Hands & Seashells) is a mixed media textile piece by Stacy Wiatrak. It is signed and dated in the lower left corner. This piece depicts two hands reminiscent of Michel...

"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...

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...

"Sea Flight Dust III" by American artist Rosamond Berg (1931 - 2018) is an assemblage/mixed media/box construction from a series, consisting of horizonta...

Varujan Boghosian was a sculptor, assembler, constructionist, and builder as well as a beachcomber, scavenger, collector, historian, and conservator. His work was inspired by the pas...

Acrylic on canvas and on foam and objects. Polyurethane foam paterns, Re purposed objects blue or painted blue.

Pop up 3 dimensional collage

These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...

Paper charcoal collage These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio, furiously te...