Margot Lovinger:
Sheer Design

Margot Lovinger creates amazing portraits. “What’s so amazing,” you may ask as you gaze upon what might at first glance appear to be a well contrived acrylic or oil painting? Lovinger’s rich, lush images are made entirely of fabrics, not paints! She starts with a cotton canvas base, then adds cottons & silks, sheer fabrics like tulle, netting, organza and chiffon. Each successive layer changes the hue of the layers beneath it, much the way a transparent color wash changes the layers underneath it in watercolor painting.
“My work started with ’story quilts’ that were interactive, and required the viewer’s participation to reveal the full narrative. Other types of quilts and fabric compositions followed, often experimenting with new materials and textures. Though I was always fascinated by figure painting, (particularly the works of the renaissance masters, such as Caravaggio) the medium frustrated me, and most of my paintings showed this. Eventually, my interest in the textures and techniques of sewing merged with my fondness for the rich colors and imagery of figure painting, and I began creating these sewn figurative fabric compositions. I have been working in this technique for about 8 years.” – Margot Lovinger

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Margot Lovinger

FYI: Both Margot Lovinger & David Meanix
(see yesterday’s feature) created artwork
for the HBO hit series Six Feet Under.

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David Meanix:
Photo Sculpture

David Meanix continues his extraordinary exploration into the genre of photosculpture, an invention of his which has been widely disseminated and imitated all over the world. Meanix has pioneered a technique whereby he shoots “one shot per every plane of the subject, inch by inch until I’ve covered all of the subject I want to sculpt. Next, I print each picture to ‘actual size.’ Then I match and cover the original subject with papier maché photocopies of those pictures.” He then uses the finished sculptures as a “mask prop,” which becomes a character in a photographic tableau. Unlike traditional characters, these are charged with additional contradictions of context and authenticity. Recast using various techniques of commercial photography such as portraiture, fashion, and advertising, the resulting tableaux convey a truly remarkable sensibility.

(Charlotte says I absolutely must inform
you all that this artist did amazing
work on the hit series Six Feet Under)

don’t miss this

impressive video of
David at work!

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David Meanix

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