This is a blog where people can look at my art work and can see what I am currently doing in the world of art.

New Web Site

So I now have an official website, I hope that all of you will check it out. For some reason you can't find it when you google my name, that will be fixed soon. http://www.annieaube.com

Artist Statement

Art for me is a very tactile experience. It should engage the viewer in a very physical way. Either a physical sensation created by layers of visual texture within the piece or literal texture i.e. rough felt, soft silk, etc. My ideal show would be one where everything was open and allowed to be touched. I like my work to be ambiguous; I want my viewers to come to their own conclusions about what I’m trying to say. I thrive on the chance that is involved in making a piece; the happy-accident is something that I live for. I also use Irony in my work, all of my “blankets” are completely useless, I love that idea that something which has all these perceived connotations is turned completely around thus shedding light on the object and on the perceptions that our culture takes for granted. For me art is a window into those things which go unseen every day (the mundane), or which our culture does not want to see (the taboo).

Resume

  • EDUCATION
  • Bachelors of Arts in Art 2006
  • SHOWS
  • Members Exhibition, IGCA, Jan 1st- 31st 2007
  • 100 x 100 Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oct. 28th-Nov. 26th 2006
  • No Big Heads, University of Alaska, Nov. 1st– 23rd 2006
  • Stitched Together (solo senior show), Mat-Su College, Oct 10th-18th 2006
  • Palmer Arts Council Pavilion, August 24th-September 4th. 2006
  • Fiber Arts Student Showcase, Mat-Su College, November 2005
  • ORGANIZATIONS
  • Valley Fiber Arts Guild, 2006-2007
  • Palmer Arts Council, 2006-2007
  • International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2006-2007

Why Fiber Arts?

Some of you might be wondering why I chose something as obscure as Fiber arts, instead of painting or sculpture. One of the things that I like about fiber arts which you cannot get with any other medium, a physical closeness. We as human beings have a close relationship with cloth, so close that we don't even perceive it most of the time. Cloth has been what has allowed us to live in cold climates (like Alaska), and to keep warm at night in the dessert. Every morning we drap ourselves in cloth, and when we go to bed at night. I like the idea of using something so taken for granted. Some of my art work is perceived as being somewhat creepy, this could be because of the closeness people instictually feel towards cloth and the way that I have used it to make them feel some what uncomfortable.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Creepy Dolls



This is a project that I have been thinking about for a very long time. I found these pictures of creepy dolls in a doll magazine that I got at the Palmer Library. I find these dolls very creepy. I've been wanting to deal with the things that scare me in my art, I think that is a very loaded topic. The other main topic that I've been dealing with has been protection so in a way these are the things that I need to protect myself from.


This close up shot, shows the stitching.





This close up shot is to show that both of these guys are stuffed. The technique is called Tripunto it is 3-d applique.





Thursday, January 25, 2007

The las two weeks

Love and Sex I


This is one of the pieces that I completed last week its made out of layers of fabric. I cut triangles in to the top layer of fabric so that one could see the layer behind it. Around the triangles, I sewed my own hair that I have been collecting out of my hair brush for a couple years now. This piece of artwork is supposed to have sexual connotations. The vulva like shapes almost seem to double as hearts.

Detail of the hair in Love and Sex I


Love and Sex II

This is the sister piece to the other. I took the triangle pieces which I had cut off of the other, and appliqued them on to the layered fabric. I notice that in painting, one can paint only one painting, but in the fiber arts medium, one must create a multiple of pieces.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Devotional clothes




This is one of the new pieces which I finished before Christmas. I call them devotional clothes because, I have written prayers out on the fabric and then stitched around the words. This one here is quilted and backed with burlap.



This is a close up of some of the stitching.









I got the idea for these pieces from these great African vests that I saw. The vests were padded in order to provide the wearer from a certian amount of physical danger. At the same time though they had passages from the Koran hand written onto the fabric. These passages were to also keep the wearer from being hurt. I thought that was a facinating idea so I created these pieces with that same idea in mind.










Friday, January 19, 2007

Burn Blankets

I know that I just posted yesterday, I promise that I'm not any everyday poster. I just had some time today while I was in the office and that I might post some of my old work. This work is very similar to some of the work that I'm doing currently. Fun Fact: All of these pieces were done while I watched documentaries about Egypt on the discovery channel. The Burn Blankets/Clothes as I call them are now part of the Sean Aube collection. I got the idea to create them after seeing these pieces of art work done by a women who first allowed fruit to rot on fabric and then she quilted around the areas that the rotting fruit had colored. I cannot think of her name but will try to have it in my next post with her web address if possible. I will also post some pictures of my new work on tuesday, the pictures I took did not come out but I will try to take some again. I would love to hear what you all think about them, so feel free to comment.

Here they all are hanging together, not a very good picture but it was hard with the sun shining in. These are all part of the show that I will soon be proposing to several galleries.


In all there are five of these in various sizes. They are in the Sean Aube collection.

Close up image of the large one, so you can see all the stitching.


This is the smallest and I think it is about 7" by 18".



The one above is by far the largest, I think that it is funny that it does not look as large in the photo.


I made all of these this fall before I had my Stitched together show.






















Thursday, January 18, 2007

My New Job


So I started my new job on Monday...I'm now an artist. For those of you who don't know I just graduated in December, that is if the college decides not to screw me, I still have yet to get my diploma. I figured since I graduated that I might as well make the attempt to do what I was trained to do. The ability to do what I want to do, is great, but I miss school. I'm also going to have to figure some way of getting out of the house or I'm going to go stir crazy. I also have a piece hanging in the Internation Gallery of Contemporary Art,(IGCA) in Anchorage, not my own show, but the members show. Just thought all my fans out there would want to know. Side note: My spelling and grammer is horendus, so please try to see past that.