Some time ago I wrote a post about embroidery as a form of art through the artistic work of Olja Stipanovic. Patricia Dahlman is another artist I discovered in the Internet that uses embroidery to express her artistic temperament. She works on canvas, cutting out forms, then stuffing and sewing them together. These stuffed, sewn forms are either stitched using different colors of thread or painted with acrylic paint.
Her three-dimensional sewn forms are based on photographs from news magazines and off the Internet of people such as George Bush and events like the insurgency in Iraq. The creation that follows, named "Freedom?", is a good example.
The subject matter of her work is taken from personal thoughts, life experiences and reactions to political events around the world.
My favorite creation is this one called "Family".
Short Bio:
Patricia Dahlman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied art at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT. Patricia has received a New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, two Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships to attend Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts, a Yaddo Residency and a Puffin Foundation Grant for the War and Peace Print Project. Patricia has shown her work all over the United States and exhibited recently at George Adams Gallery in NYC, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL and Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at "Art in the Windows" at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library in NYC. Patricia lives and works in Lyndhurst, NJ with her husband the artist, Michael Dal Cerro.
Patricia Dahlman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied art at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT. Patricia has received a New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, two Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships to attend Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts, a Yaddo Residency and a Puffin Foundation Grant for the War and Peace Print Project. Patricia has shown her work all over the United States and exhibited recently at George Adams Gallery in NYC, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL and Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at "Art in the Windows" at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library in NYC. Patricia lives and works in Lyndhurst, NJ with her husband the artist, Michael Dal Cerro.
You can see more of her work here.
So have you used or seen other people use embroidery in a similar or other contemporary artistic way?
KP
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