Cathryn Amidei, (b. Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist who lives and works in Ann Arbor Mi.
She has an MFA in Fibers and taught at Eastern Michigan University until 2018.
She is currently the director of the Digital Weaving Lab at Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland OH.
Her work begins as drawings in oil pastels and/or photographs which are then hand woven using a Jacquard loom. Her interests range from impressionistic reflections of natural spaces to observations of the body as landscape. The complexities of her works reflect her observations about the interactions between people, materials, time and space.
She dyes her yarns with natural dyes and incorporates a variety of material into the pieces. Her work has been featured in Visionary Arts Collective, Fiber Arts Network, and is in private collections nations wide. Cathryn is a member of WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor.
Statement
Resonance is a sympathetic vibration. I think we are all like antennae searching and waiting for a signal. My woven works are studies of movement, trajectories, and change. Everything is in motion all the time. We are in motion - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The trajectories of my threads are the paths we take in the course of a single day and throughout our lives. I think about the tracks and trails of human migration, and that of creatures great and small, crossing the earth now and in the past. When I weave, I am in motion, throwing shuttles that carry lines on trajectories through space, building a matrix that is both complex and simple, with a history and micro and macro realities. It is beautiful and also overwhelming to realize that we are on multiple trajectories all the time, shared, and colliding paths, all of us, moving at different speeds all at once.
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