Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia A few years ago cayce “discovered” the back of her work – a chaotic network of thread that forms as she works on the front. this show features the back side (or “verso”) to a greater degree, recognizing the beauty of these happy accidents and the metaphor of our private messy inner selves. When scouring through the minute details of artist cayce zavaglia’s embroidered portraits, it’s difficult imagine each work is scarcely larger than 8″ x 10″. her process, which she refers to as both “thread painting” and “renegade embroidery,” begins with a photoshoot of each subject, namely friends, family, and fellow artists. roughly 100 150 photos are winnowedcontinue.

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia Realistic embroidered portraits explore the complexity of human identity. cayce zavaglia ‘s portraits capture her subject's natural beauty through textured layers of hand stitched embroidery, emulating the brushwork of classical oil paintings. trained as a painter, zavaglia made the switch to embroidery as her primary medium over 14 years ago. The direction in which the threads are sewn mimic the way brush marks are layered within a painting which, in turn, allows for the allusion of depth, volume, and form. my stitching methodology borders on the obsessive, but ultimately allows me to visually evoke painterly renditions of flesh, hair, and cloth. a few years ago, i turned one of my. "the longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. – lucian freud" cayce zavaglia makes intensely detailed embroideries of wool and thread that have the look of photorealistic paintings … although, from a distance, zavaglia’s portraits seem to be nearer the surface than they actually are. When scouring through the minute details of artist cayce zavaglia’s embroidered portraits (previously), it’s difficult imagine each work is scarcely larger than 8″ x 10″. her process, which she refers to as both “thread painting” and “renegade embroidery,” begins with a photoshoot of each subject, namely friends, family, and.

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia "the longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. – lucian freud" cayce zavaglia makes intensely detailed embroideries of wool and thread that have the look of photorealistic paintings … although, from a distance, zavaglia’s portraits seem to be nearer the surface than they actually are. When scouring through the minute details of artist cayce zavaglia’s embroidered portraits (previously), it’s difficult imagine each work is scarcely larger than 8″ x 10″. her process, which she refers to as both “thread painting” and “renegade embroidery,” begins with a photoshoot of each subject, namely friends, family, and. St. louis based artist cayce zavaglia (covered here) hand embroiders portraits of family and friends using wool thread. her technique is surprisingly painterly and realistic, mimicking the effect of oil painting, her first discipline. Cayce zavaglia creates her portraits in a novel variation on the time honored traditions of tapestry, using crewel embroidery wool in a method in which the direction of the threads are not blended into a uniform pattern, but given direction within the creation of the form — like brushstrokes, producing a much more “painterly” (“threaderly”?.

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia St. louis based artist cayce zavaglia (covered here) hand embroiders portraits of family and friends using wool thread. her technique is surprisingly painterly and realistic, mimicking the effect of oil painting, her first discipline. Cayce zavaglia creates her portraits in a novel variation on the time honored traditions of tapestry, using crewel embroidery wool in a method in which the direction of the threads are not blended into a uniform pattern, but given direction within the creation of the form — like brushstrokes, producing a much more “painterly” (“threaderly”?.

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia

Painting With Thread New Work By Cayce Zavaglia