Please join us for the opening reception of Floral Remix, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Providence, RI based artist, Kirstin Lamb Saturday, May 28 from 3pm – 5pm.

“I make labor-intensive images of labor-intensive textiles and wallpapers. These paintings encompass hybrid embroidery, cross stitch, collage and digital mark-making. I make a layered digital collage, using current and past paintings and patterns, and I cut and chop them, drawing in new marks and scribbles. I feel these are the most expressive and abstract of the work I have made, allowing me to play with calligraphic mark-making and humor.

Though these paintings read as expressive, much of the work in making them is deeply tactical and repetitive. The paintings are made from an earlier body of work, my embroidery paintings, which were made using a printed gridded pattern. To make those works, some of which are included in this show, I paint images that are not already patterns by generating a digitized grid from which I paint each stitch by hand with acrylic and acrylic gouache on a wet media acetate. This is a simple process of re-painting a textile or pattern, sometimes an invented image-generated textile, sometimes an actual knit or textile pattern (cross stitch or embroidery). The brush creates a one-to-one relationship of mark to stitch; each mark stands in for a move of the needle.

Jennifer Terzian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield

Kirstin Lamb