Chris Carpenter – Textile Artist
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Dyeing, printing and surface treatments of fabric for costumes on the stage

 

Oracle gown (Head Over Heels, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2015) Designer Loren shaw
Eternal Snake Robe (The White Snake, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2013) Designer Mara Blumenfeld
Robe of Blood (Throne of Blood, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2011) Designer Stephani Mar.
Tempest robe (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2011) Designer Deb Dryden
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Old globe Theatre, 1998) Designer Robert Morgan
Wearable human statue (Willful, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012) Designer Ana Kuzmanic
Cocoa Dress (Cocoanuts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2014) Designer Meg Neville
Richard Robe (Richard III, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2014) Designer Llona Somogyi
Comedy Twins (Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2015) Designer Kara Harmon
Cocoanuts robe (Cocoanuts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2014) Designer Meg Neville
King Jesse gilded trench coat (Unfortunates, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2013) Designer Katherine O’Neill
The Rake's Progress (San Francisco Opera, 1982) Designer David Hockney
The Rake's Progress (San Francisco Opera, 1982) Designer David Hockney
Coreolanus, OSF 2008, Designer Deb Ddryden
King’s robe (All’s Well That Ends Well, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2009) Designer Linda Roethke
Katherine’s dress (Taming of the Shrew, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2014) Designer Meg Neville
Family Album (Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2015) Designer Tily Grimes

About Chris

Fabric is a medium that offers me the opportunity to work with both form and color. In the beginning of my career, I constructed and painted figures that often told a story. Later the story was told by using the interaction of a box and figure.

Next, Deb Dryden's book introduced me to the field of dyeing and painting costumes for theatre. So off I went around the country working at many theaters including San Francisco Opera, The Guthrie, the Old Globe Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where Deb Dryden was resident costume designer.

While working in theatre, I became fascinated with street images that captured my imagination when walking in urban areas. The canvas of the street offers coded messages and a variety of surface embellishments which I transfer to cotton upholstery velvet through etching and painting, achieving the look and texture of concrete and asphalt while keeping the soft tactile nature of the fabric. This now has become the main focus of my artwork.

Contact Chris - checkmate@opendoor.biz

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