Travis Boyer
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Camella Ehlke
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Karen Kimmel
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Yuval Pudik
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Abby Walton
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See Line Gallery presents A Common Thread, a group exhibition curated by Janet Levy celebrating the works of:
- Travis Boyer,
- Camella Ehlke,
- Karen Kimmel,
- Yuval Pudik,
- Abby Walton
Although they use different mediums and perspectives, the artists in
A Common Thread share a connection through the use of textiles.
Travis Boyer uses batik, silk weaving, plangi, off-loom weaving and fiber forms to create and promote textile art. He works independently and in three collaborative projects: Donnie & Travis, with Don Cervantes – a fine art project that combines embroidery and photography, The Pon-a-thon with Abby Walton that is a community building textile art project, and Flex-Your-Textiles with Ginger Brooks-Takahashi. For this exhibition he presents an off-loom weaving wall piece, in addition to the hanging sculpture co-created with Abby Walton.
Camella Ehlke utilizes textiles and clothing to create various objects. For Art Basel 2003 she presented a collection of themed beanbags using diverse materials and textiles. Her more recent work is drawn from nature and the human body incorporating photographic images on canvas embroidered either by machine or hand sewn. Ehlke uses lines and patterns she creates from thread to outline the form and reveal the shape of the image. Three pieces from her new series will be on view.
Karen Kimmel employs drawing, design, stencils, needlepoint, social interaction and performance in the creation of objects. She designs, creates and orchestrates. In her more recent work, Kimmel has created ‘clusters’ that include drawings on paper, drawings on colored canvas and needlepoint, all individually framed but closely related in form and function. Each work in the cluster builds on the next, illuminating new ways of seeing these forms. Eventually, many of these drawings give way to sculptural landscapes and/or installations. She will present a new ‘cluster’ for this exhibition.
Yuval Pudik replaces his usual medium of pencil and paper with tracing paper, scissors and tape. Reminiscent of pattern making, where the fabric is outlined and deconstructed, a similar process is applied to the form of the body. Using fashion editorials as a reference, Pudik creates a sea of girls out of the same materials, making them appear the same in color and texture. He has chosen to erase all signs of detail. Alone or grouped in clusters, his work makes a statement about beauty and how we create and perceive it. For A Common Thread, Pudik presents a wall installation.
Abby Walton creates photographs, Pon-pon installations, and co-hosts the Pon-a-thon with Travis Boyer. The Pon-a-thon is a community-based project started in 2005 where artists are invited to come and learn how to make pon-pons in a daylong event that opens up conversations about the modes of textile art and technique. In collaboration with Travis Boyer, Walton presents a hanging sculpture for A Common Thread.