Icelandic Threads
Works by Anne Greenwood
at the Joan Truckenbrod Gallery
517 SW 2nd St. Corvallis, Oregon
By Appointment: please call: 503-935-4522
Gallery Residency:
w/ Kit Stafford January 8-11th
w/ Mauricio Rioseco January 16th-23rd
open hours:
16th noon-5
17th 4-8
18th noon-5
19th noon-5
20th 1-5
21st noon-5
22nd noon-5
23rd 10-1
Closing Reception Third Thursday Corvallis Art Walk: Thursday, January 17th, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Icelandic Threads is an invitation to breathe easy: to come into sync with the month that follows the winter solstice and to immerse in the beauty of the handmade - in revealing the pulses of nature.
For the exhibition, Greenwood has furnished the space with hand-dyed fabrics and made an edition of hand-stitched books entitled ‘Vestiges’ that include folded, sewn, dyed, and printed crinoline pieces accompanied by text. The textile work is hand-dyed wool, cotton and silks stitched with silk and cotton thread. Much of the work was made while Greenwood was in residence at the Icelandic Textile Center (Textílsetur Íslands) in Blönduós, Iceland. Combining her interests in art and science, Greenwood explores the shared geological landforms of Iceland and Oregon and investigates the natural and magical features of these two landscapes: mountain, elemental, weathering, volcanic, fluvial and coastal; layering past and present, permanent and ephemeral, the installation is a tincture of the artist’s ancestral memory.
Greenwood’s artwork focuses on history and connection: transforming personal and historical information, materials and textile items into sculptural images, objects and books examining the confluence of nature, materials, and magic, as well as the animism of place.
“My residency in Iceland allowed my interior life to emerge - as inspiration unfolded into a new body of work that extends into the past, present and future. This initiated an experience of artistic involution with the Icelandic landscape in it’s raw, primal, feminine self. The strength of the landscape and my sense of kinship with the land, changed me, and my work. It is this ongoing revelation of connectedness, which I am exploring in this installation at the Joan Truckenbrod PopUp Gallery. My intention is to initiate through my own presence in the gallery, my availability for conversation and dialogue with the deep intelligence of this community.”
The ancient Icelandic word for intuition is “innsæi,” but in Iceland it has multiple meanings. It can mean “the sea within” which is the borderless nature of our inner world, a constantly moving world of vision, feelings and imagination beyond words. It can mean “to see within” which means to know yourself, and to know yourself well enough to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes. And it can mean “to see from the inside out” which is to have a strong inner compass to navigate your way in our ever-changing world.”
Materials: Willow and white poplar wood, walnut ink; repurposed fibers: wool, cotton, linen, silk; new fibers: Tussah wild silk, crinoline, Mohawk Superfine 80# paper; natural dyes: Osage orange, fustic, indigo, logwood, cochineal, weld.
Techniques: fabric manipulation, natural dying, applique, knotting, machine and hand-stitching, ink and brush lettering, letterpress printing.
Anne Greenwood is a textiles and community engagement artist. Born on the high plains of rural North Dakota, Anne spent her childhood roaming the hills, along the rivers and in the starry night sky. She has lived in Portland for the past twenty-seven years where she has worked as a gardener and artist. She has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, was awarded residencies at Caldera and Playa in Oregon and has taught in schools and in workshops with all ages of students. In 2018 she traveled to Iceland for a residency at the Icelandic Textiles Center and spent a week hiking with Signal Fire in the Oregon Cascades for a residency called Carbon: Writing in the Pulse. In November Anne will be in residency at Pine Meadow Ranch near Sisters, Oregon to finalize a new project called Out of the Blue: a limited edition deck of cards inspired by Icelandic folk magic.
Thanks to:
Mauricio Rioseco, Kent Smith, Joan Truckenbrod, John & Sally Eveland at Gathering Together Farms, David Paul Bayles, Kit Stafford, Lynda Farmer, Sandy Segna, Susan Pachuta, Cindy Paden & Deb Sether.
Special acknowledgement to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.
Works by Anne Greenwood
at the Joan Truckenbrod Gallery
517 SW 2nd St. Corvallis, Oregon
By Appointment: please call: 503-935-4522
Gallery Residency:
w/ Kit Stafford January 8-11th
w/ Mauricio Rioseco January 16th-23rd
open hours:
16th noon-5
17th 4-8
18th noon-5
19th noon-5
20th 1-5
21st noon-5
22nd noon-5
23rd 10-1
Closing Reception Third Thursday Corvallis Art Walk: Thursday, January 17th, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Icelandic Threads is an invitation to breathe easy: to come into sync with the month that follows the winter solstice and to immerse in the beauty of the handmade - in revealing the pulses of nature.
For the exhibition, Greenwood has furnished the space with hand-dyed fabrics and made an edition of hand-stitched books entitled ‘Vestiges’ that include folded, sewn, dyed, and printed crinoline pieces accompanied by text. The textile work is hand-dyed wool, cotton and silks stitched with silk and cotton thread. Much of the work was made while Greenwood was in residence at the Icelandic Textile Center (Textílsetur Íslands) in Blönduós, Iceland. Combining her interests in art and science, Greenwood explores the shared geological landforms of Iceland and Oregon and investigates the natural and magical features of these two landscapes: mountain, elemental, weathering, volcanic, fluvial and coastal; layering past and present, permanent and ephemeral, the installation is a tincture of the artist’s ancestral memory.
Greenwood’s artwork focuses on history and connection: transforming personal and historical information, materials and textile items into sculptural images, objects and books examining the confluence of nature, materials, and magic, as well as the animism of place.
“My residency in Iceland allowed my interior life to emerge - as inspiration unfolded into a new body of work that extends into the past, present and future. This initiated an experience of artistic involution with the Icelandic landscape in it’s raw, primal, feminine self. The strength of the landscape and my sense of kinship with the land, changed me, and my work. It is this ongoing revelation of connectedness, which I am exploring in this installation at the Joan Truckenbrod PopUp Gallery. My intention is to initiate through my own presence in the gallery, my availability for conversation and dialogue with the deep intelligence of this community.”
The ancient Icelandic word for intuition is “innsæi,” but in Iceland it has multiple meanings. It can mean “the sea within” which is the borderless nature of our inner world, a constantly moving world of vision, feelings and imagination beyond words. It can mean “to see within” which means to know yourself, and to know yourself well enough to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes. And it can mean “to see from the inside out” which is to have a strong inner compass to navigate your way in our ever-changing world.”
Materials: Willow and white poplar wood, walnut ink; repurposed fibers: wool, cotton, linen, silk; new fibers: Tussah wild silk, crinoline, Mohawk Superfine 80# paper; natural dyes: Osage orange, fustic, indigo, logwood, cochineal, weld.
Techniques: fabric manipulation, natural dying, applique, knotting, machine and hand-stitching, ink and brush lettering, letterpress printing.
Anne Greenwood is a textiles and community engagement artist. Born on the high plains of rural North Dakota, Anne spent her childhood roaming the hills, along the rivers and in the starry night sky. She has lived in Portland for the past twenty-seven years where she has worked as a gardener and artist. She has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, was awarded residencies at Caldera and Playa in Oregon and has taught in schools and in workshops with all ages of students. In 2018 she traveled to Iceland for a residency at the Icelandic Textiles Center and spent a week hiking with Signal Fire in the Oregon Cascades for a residency called Carbon: Writing in the Pulse. In November Anne will be in residency at Pine Meadow Ranch near Sisters, Oregon to finalize a new project called Out of the Blue: a limited edition deck of cards inspired by Icelandic folk magic.
Thanks to:
Mauricio Rioseco, Kent Smith, Joan Truckenbrod, John & Sally Eveland at Gathering Together Farms, David Paul Bayles, Kit Stafford, Lynda Farmer, Sandy Segna, Susan Pachuta, Cindy Paden & Deb Sether.
Special acknowledgement to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.
Seeing Through is an edition of twelve unalike books made in collaboration; prompted by Kit’s poem, ‘In the Time it Takes’ and our shared obsession with textiles.
The materials are hand-dyed silk thread, muslin with machine stitched text, walnut ink, scorched crinoline and Abaca paper made by Helen Hiebert.
Thanks to our friends in Corvallis, Oregon who joined us for an evening of stitching, scorching, and mending the pages of these books.
Anne Greenwood & Kit Stafford 2019
The materials are hand-dyed silk thread, muslin with machine stitched text, walnut ink, scorched crinoline and Abaca paper made by Helen Hiebert.
Thanks to our friends in Corvallis, Oregon who joined us for an evening of stitching, scorching, and mending the pages of these books.
Anne Greenwood & Kit Stafford 2019