*CANCELED* Artist Talk: Kate Nartker
Canceled due to COVID-19 precautionary measures, and to limit artist travel required. Sorry for the inconvenience, this program will not be rescheduled.
Join us Saturday March 28, 2020 as If You Have Ghosts artist, Kate Nartker, discusses her work and processes she uses to achieve a unique blend of contemporary and traditional fiber techniques.
FREE for members, $5 admission applies otherwise
ARTIST BIO:
Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to dismantle images, narrative, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2012 and is Assistant Professor of Textile Design at North Carolina State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Nartker lives in Durham, North Carolina, and is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I convert video into cloth, and cloth into video. I extend the logic of textiles to film by animating weavings or by weaving printed film frames. In each case, the moving image is structured by the new woven system, and there is a loss of information as events are absorbed and overridden by material translations.
To create the animations, I digitize films and render out a series of frozen stills. I weave the sequential images line-by-line on a Jacquard loom, creating lengths of cloth, which I then scan back into digital format. In the end, there is the physical weaving and a video piece. I am curious how cinematic techniques can be materialized physically to defamiliarize and transform an image. For example, when an image comes into focus, it is not through the turning of a lens, but through the surface and structure of the material itself. Behind all of my work is the tension between an image and the fiber it rests on, and the investigative act of deciphering, remembering, or coming to know something.