Chris Carpenter – Textile Artist
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Urban Hieroglyphs

Street images etched and painted onto cotton upholstery velvet

 

Ashland Metallic Diamond Grate
Ashland Metallic Diamond Grate
Ashland Metallic Diamond Grate detail
Ashland Metallic Diamond Grate detail
Yellow Numbers & Red Stripe
Yellow Numbers & Red Stripe
Yellow Stripe with Metallic Diamond Grid
Yellow Stripe with Metallic Diamond Grid
Yellow Stripe with Metallic Diamond Grid Detail
Yellow Stripe with Metallic Diamond Grid Detail
Water Grate Metallic Ashland
Water Grate Metallic Ashland
Water Grate Metallic detail
Water Grate Metallic detail
Grate #23 6:21
Grate #23 6:21
Arrow on Pavement
Arrow on Pavement
Hong Kong Grid detail
Hong Kong Grid detail
Honk Kong Grate
Honk Kong Grate
Railroad District Ashland
Railroad District Ashland
Water Grid
Water Grid
X1 Grid
X1 Grid
Grate #23 detail 6:23
Grate #23 detail 6:23
Diamond Water Grate
Diamond Water Grate
Pioneer Street #2
Pioneer Street #2
Pioneer Street #1
Pioneer Street #1

 

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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