Yulia Ustinova

Yulia Ustinova is a Russian artist who uses the art of crocheting to replicate famous artworks or to arrange new shapes totally made by her.She is creating soft sculptures from crochet with a sculptural form inside. There is nothing granny about her work. It is bold, direct and brings a smile to the viewer.

Yulia has been formally trained in art and has taken her training along with using the old craft of crochet to sculpture her ‘big women’ or in Russian, “tetki” – it means uneducated and ungroomed women.She explains how she decides on the positions "I am taking all my ideas from real life which surrounds me, from my reflections about some events.

Sometimes plasticity dictates the plot, sometimes, on the contrary, feelings and impressions from real life get shape in my works"Works are crocheted very tight and solidly filled with cotton wool. So they are quite solid and about 25cm to 60 cm in size.They are not exhibited constantly, except in Olga Okudzava`s museum of author dolls. Sometimes she has periodic exhibitions at The Central House of Artists.

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contact to her: ustinova1961@gmail.com

                                                                                       

Jo Hamilton

 Portland artist Jo Hamilton crochets a new twist on an ancient craft with elaborate cityscapes and portraits that unravel crochet as granny craft.By painting in yarn, Scottish-born Hamilton, 41, blends fine art training from the Glasgow School of Art with the craft she learned from her “gran.” She moved to Portland in 1996, and painted in oil and watercolour for almost twenty years, but says, “I hadn’t found my medium.” In 2006, inspiration struck at a non-traditional show of tapestry, sewing and embroidery at the Contemporary Craft Museum (now the Museum of Contemporary Craft). She went home, picked up the crochet hook and began a cityscape of Portland that took years to complete. Next were the portraitsfriends, co-workers and even dogs.

Unlike other textile artists, Hamilton never graphs her work. Instead, she uses a photo for reference and crochets from the inside out, starting with eyes and building outward row-by row. "Nothing is planned ahead, I make it up as I go,” she explains. A fringe of all the yarns used hangs at the bottom of each piece a signature of her work.

Her pieces have been shown around the United States and world, mostly recently at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington, where she exhibited a large crocheted male nude. In April, she’ll be showing at Christiane Millinger Oriental Rugs in Portland.

The unusual medium for the familiar art-form provides the unexpected on several levels.  Each portrait has a texture very different from common painterliness – they’re soft, knotty, and bordered by loose ambiguous edges.  Hamilton’s material perhaps also goes further to suggest her relationship with her subjects.  Each portrait takes a considerable amount of time and intimate work by hand.  Further, the crochet process is reminiscent of household trinkets and decorations lending her work a feeling of life and home.

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Sharron 
Hedges

Sharron Hedges was working in welding but wanted a medium that would allow her more ease with personal expression. She found that in 1969 with crochet, which she was introduced to by Janet Lipkin, Jean Williams Cacicdeo and Marika Contompasis (who all have work in Art to Wear Book as well).Sharron enjoyed working with the interplay of two-dimension and three-dimension that crochet offers. By 1984 when Hedges was working on Morpho, she was less concerned than before about the crafting of each stitch and more concerned about the layers of the work, which is why she chose to work in knitting and then use crochet to intricately add to the knit work. Her web site is: http://www.sharronhedges.com

Carter Smith 

  Work by Carter Smith 

Smith has created a multitude of hand-dyed textiles for clothing and wall pieces over the last 40-plus years.The artist uses a combination of acid dyes and fiber reactive dyes along with a discharging agent to selectively add and remove color. He has adapted the traditional art of stitched and bound resist to suit his contemporary esthetic. Smith layers a multitude of colors as the pieces go through as many as 20 steps to completion. Technique: Shibori /Tie-Dye. Material: Silk

WYLIE SOFIA GARCIA

Wylie Sofia Garcia is interested in the aesthetics of beauty blending with the psychological on the surface of feminine domestic objects such as dresses, quilts, chairs, or beds. At The Barn, she worked on several textile-based objects that were included in her MFA thesis exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Wylie is the only resident in Seven Below history to elegantly endure the summertime mosquito epidemic while five months pregnant!

Betsy Giberson

 Liu Fang

 Barbara Wunder Hynes

Her background from her mouth; by 1969, I was designing and creating original clothing for local Southern California hippie boutiques. The original Gypsy Spirit Threadworks was born in the 1970s, when I created costumes for musicians and other performers, and participated in craft fairs and festivals. During this time, I also worked as a theatrical make-up artist and costumer for two costume companies, and I designed costume jewelry at a local mall store. In 1978, I won First Place in the Royalty category of the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire’s annual costume contest at the old Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California.

source of images :http://gypsyspiritthreadworks.com/

Nick Cave

Nice Cave has become known for his soundsuits, full body ensembles that cover the wearer from head to toe, often camouflaging the very shape of the human body.  By masking the identity of the wearer and obfuscating gender, race, and other social cues that we have all become so adept at reading–the wearer of a soundsuit is simultaneously hidden from view and judgment while also redefined as a playful and performative abstraction. 

Arian Sroka 

    Convertible ooak women clothing nuno felt - felted ... by ArianeMariane on Etsy 

Arian Sroka Independent textile artiste creates fiber art to wear in her French atelier near Paris. She makes outstanding and eco-friendly garments and accessories of high quality.

    

Sebahat Cetinkaya

Creations belong to the mother. She is inspired from nature, traditional Turkish arts, crafts and freeform fiber artists.

More about her: http://publications.catstonepress.com/issue/48026/16

http://irregularexpressions.info

Jean Gauger

 Jean Gauger is a Fiber Artist who creates handmade one of a kind art. She uses wool and silk to create unique items from wearable art to home decor using the process of felting and or nuno.

Explore and examine the variety of patterns, shapes and colors presented in natures most beloved insect. Then learn how to interpret your favorites in a Nuno felt garment. Create a stunning felt shawl with layers of silk gauze, merino wool, china silk, and a range of decorative silk fibers.

Sharron 
Hedges

Sharron Hedges was another prolific crochet designer in the 1970s. She was a leader in the wearable art movement of that era and she continues to work in wearable art to this day, although where she’s really made her mark in recent years is in the development of stunning prints for use in wearable as well as paper goods and home decor items.

 Sharron enjoyed working with the interplay of two-dimension and three-dimension that crochet offers. In other words, she liked creating a flat two-dimensional fabric with crochet then putting it on a person and seeing how it changed the work and then working back in the 2D to adapt to those changes.

Christine’s Coat (shown above) is the first work that really transitioned away from the nature-inspired imagery towards a more graphic print which is notable because prints are what Sharron ended up doing a lot of in the years to come.

Norma Minkowitz

 Norma Minkowitz, mixed media,

 Norma Minkowitz

fiber and mixed media

King of the Hill, by Norma Minkowitz 
Fiber, acrylic

Norma Minkowitz is a sculptor of the human form who happens to use the technique of crochet to achieve her vision. For over 30 years Minkowitz has transformed the traditionally feminine art of crochet into a medium for figurative sculpture. The transparent openness of the crochet allows her to draw in three dimensions to reflect the psychological ideas beneath the surface.

Carter Smith

The Art of Shibori: Work by Carter Smith on display in the Hillestad Gallery includes "Piazza Coat," made of embroidered silk. The background includes details of (top) "Lava Flow" and (bottom) "Dance of the Impalas." Courtesy photo.

 Smith has created a multitude of hand-dyed textiles for clothing and wall pieces over the last 40-plus years.The artist uses a combination of acid dyes and fiber reactive dyes along with a discharging agent to selectively add and remove color. He has adapted the traditional art of stitched and bound resist to suit his contemporary esthetic. Smith layers a multitude of colors as the pieces go through as many as 20 steps to completion. Technique: Shibori Tye-dye material: Silk.