Pip Culbert
Born 1938 – 2016, England
Pip Culbert’s artwork deconstructs every day fabric objects and pares them down to their essential seams. In this process of reduction, She re-contextualized the object, be it a button-down shirt or a quilt, into a weightless line drawing, still familiar but now freed of their ephemeral limitations. She liberates the confinement prescribed by function and transports the textile into a lyrical, poetic dimension. Her work embraces the minimalist ideal of less is more, reminding us that there are infinite possibilities in the space between the lines.
Green Shirt, cotton, hanger
White Shirt, cotton, hanger
Striped Pocket, pins
Handbag, cotton, pins
Quilt Pink and Beige, cotton, pins
Quilt, Gold, cotton, pins
Quilt 1, cotton, pins
Green Pinny, cotton, pins
Pip Culbert, Swag Bags and Palliasses October 24 – December 6, 2014