Gay E. Lasher: March 20, 2014 Video interviews

Thursday, March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014 Video interviews

Back in November when my show as up at aBuzz Gallery in Denver, I was interviewed by Quilters Newsletter. A couple months later, the team came out to my studio to videotape the process I use to create my colorful abstract textile works. Bill Gardner, Editor-In-Chief, Mary Kate Karr-Petras, show host, and Brian Buss, videographer made the whole experience a lot of fun.

The first video, the gallery interview, will air tomorrow, March 21, and the second, the computer process, will air March 28. You can see them QuiltersNewsletter.com, QNNtv.com and on the Quilters Newsletter YouTube channel. Hope you will tune in !!

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Artist Statement

As an artist, I have always been concerned with the ideas of transformation and mystery, the boundaries between reality and illusion. I am intrigued by the potential that even pedestrian images or subjects have for being reborn in a completely new and different way.

I am excited by the transformation of ordinary photographic images into compositions of intense color and dynamic composition and also pleased by how the use of black stitch sharpens the image and creates depth. While the specific sources of the original photographs vary, I am particularly interested in construction sites for the multitude of shapes, colors and objects they contain and because they are transitional spaces in the creation of new structures for re-created uses.

In my current work I change ordinary digital photographs into abstract compositions using features of Adobe Photoshop. Small areas are then greatly enlarged to produce the final image which is then printed in panels on cotton and machine stitched. The abstractions are concerned with formal elements such as color, shape, line and the texture provided by stitch.