Alice Munro

Transfigured Space: Pattern and Painted Bodies

Alice Munro is a painter and a fiber artist from Buffalo, NY, whose work focuses largely on color relations, repetitive acts, and tactile making processes. Her creative practice includes abstraction, textile design and fiber arts and explores themes of memory, decoration, and the subconscious. My project Transfigured Space: Pattern and Painted Bodies explores the relationship between body, pattern and color, through combining oil paintings and textile design. The paintings are largely based in balancing control and intuition; finding moments of large active strokes along with contrast detailed repetitions. By creating a series of garments based on abstract paintings, I aim to portray the unique connection between body consciousness of the female maker and the process of creating itself. These abstract compositions balance feminine botanical shapes and patterns with painterly intuition, historically categorized as masculine. Throughout my creative practice I have balanced both painting and fiber mediums, and have found myself drawn to the tactile and repetitive processes. Silhouettes prioritize movement and deemphasize the human form through a painted camouflage, thus exploring what it means for bodies to move in space without constriction.