Jacquelyn Strycker "Leftovers"
$1250. Stretched sewn risograph on cotton with fabric marker, 30” x 30”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
In the past two years, as we’ve sheltered at home, and worked from home, domesticity has been fractured. The idea of “home” has been refocused. I use household objects and textiles as source material, translating them into abstract shapes and patterns. Working modularly, on easily portable surfaces, I make small geometric works. I delight in the ornamental, drawing patterns and turning them into matrices for prints, which I tile and collage into larger works, sometimes embellishing them with drawing, gold leaf and gouache. The works, referencing quilts, are an unrestrained layering of pattern on pattern. Historically, quiltmaking is rife with paradox: it is domestic labor reliant on industrialization; conjuring a make-do ethos, yet established in abundance. I use mechanical processes to translate handmade processes, working back and forth until the distinction is blurred. I enjoy the tension between the so-called handmade and the machine-made, and the resulting moments of glitch. The work embodies the pleasures of color, pattern, and craft, but also the brokeness of the present, as the quilt blocks fall.
Artist bio
Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist working primarily in printmaking and fibers-based media. She is concerned with the relationship between decoration and function, and invested in material exploration and handicraft. Strycker has a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is presently a faculty member and the Director of Operations of the MFA Art Practice department at the School of Visual Arts.
$1250. Stretched sewn risograph on cotton with fabric marker, 30” x 30”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
In the past two years, as we’ve sheltered at home, and worked from home, domesticity has been fractured. The idea of “home” has been refocused. I use household objects and textiles as source material, translating them into abstract shapes and patterns. Working modularly, on easily portable surfaces, I make small geometric works. I delight in the ornamental, drawing patterns and turning them into matrices for prints, which I tile and collage into larger works, sometimes embellishing them with drawing, gold leaf and gouache. The works, referencing quilts, are an unrestrained layering of pattern on pattern. Historically, quiltmaking is rife with paradox: it is domestic labor reliant on industrialization; conjuring a make-do ethos, yet established in abundance. I use mechanical processes to translate handmade processes, working back and forth until the distinction is blurred. I enjoy the tension between the so-called handmade and the machine-made, and the resulting moments of glitch. The work embodies the pleasures of color, pattern, and craft, but also the brokeness of the present, as the quilt blocks fall.
Artist bio
Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist working primarily in printmaking and fibers-based media. She is concerned with the relationship between decoration and function, and invested in material exploration and handicraft. Strycker has a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is presently a faculty member and the Director of Operations of the MFA Art Practice department at the School of Visual Arts.
$1250. Stretched sewn risograph on cotton with fabric marker, 30” x 30”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
In the past two years, as we’ve sheltered at home, and worked from home, domesticity has been fractured. The idea of “home” has been refocused. I use household objects and textiles as source material, translating them into abstract shapes and patterns. Working modularly, on easily portable surfaces, I make small geometric works. I delight in the ornamental, drawing patterns and turning them into matrices for prints, which I tile and collage into larger works, sometimes embellishing them with drawing, gold leaf and gouache. The works, referencing quilts, are an unrestrained layering of pattern on pattern. Historically, quiltmaking is rife with paradox: it is domestic labor reliant on industrialization; conjuring a make-do ethos, yet established in abundance. I use mechanical processes to translate handmade processes, working back and forth until the distinction is blurred. I enjoy the tension between the so-called handmade and the machine-made, and the resulting moments of glitch. The work embodies the pleasures of color, pattern, and craft, but also the brokeness of the present, as the quilt blocks fall.
Artist bio
Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist working primarily in printmaking and fibers-based media. She is concerned with the relationship between decoration and function, and invested in material exploration and handicraft. Strycker has a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is presently a faculty member and the Director of Operations of the MFA Art Practice department at the School of Visual Arts.