Not exact matches
She also
painted fabrics and used batik (a method of applying wax resistant patterns to
muslin pieces originated by Ancient Egyptians), crafts she passed to Lipke's mother, Catherine Hall, and which Lipke incorporates into her own
painting today.
She begins a piece with a simple under -
painting in acrylic
paint on canvas or
muslin... then finishes the piece by appliquéing
fabric and thread on top.
Her work weaves bleach - stained bed sheets,
muslin, transparent
fabric and «varying viscosities of oil
paint,» according to the gallery.
Byron Kim stains his recent
paintings with natural dyes and then works them with oil and earth pigments on a variety of
fabric including canvas, linen,
muslin, burlap and silk.
He applies thin
paint to fine
muslin, and similar to the wings of such creatures, forms emerge from within the delicate
fabric.
The freedom that Dolla claimed in the 1970s came at a price: very few people knew what to do with this artist who could move from finger -
painted monochromes to land - art (large colored dots on beaches and snow - capped mountains) to tiny fishing - lure sculptures, to large sulfurous
paintings made with smoking tapers, to hilarious combine
paintings that featured window shutters, to labyrinthine installations created with yards of unrolled
muslin fabric.