CATHERINE PAUL

ABOUT CATHERINE PAUL

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I work in an array of media, from assemblage to drawing to textiles.

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My current project HORSE derives from a question: Why did I have an emotion reaction--overwhelming and even inappropriate--to a drawing in a museum? My process allows my exploration to span across media, beginning with intimate forms of writing and drawing into commercialized and decorative realms, where the personal wobbles. 

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My fiber art brings traditional methods of quilting and knitting into abstracted encounters with natural, imagined, and literary worlds. As an art form with a long and tangled history, quilting offers special opportunities to explore relationships between art and craft, comfort and discomfort, utility and art for art's sake. Traditionally thought of--and denigrated--as women's work, quilting further allows examination of gendered thinking in the art world, and opportunities to explore the place of women's creativity.