Cathryn Amidei
Ann Arbor, , MI
Visual artist blending the traditional craft of hand weaving with contemporary technology that embraces the precision and possibilities of both.
Message
Cathryn Amidei, (b. Chicago, Illinois) is lives and works in Ann Arbor Mi.
Cathryn's work combines the precision and possibilities of digital design with traditional hand weaving. 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.
Her work has been exhibited in Muskegon Museum of Art, Visionary Arts Collective, Fiber Arts Network, and is in private collections nations wide.
She holds a MFA in Fibers from Eastern Michigan University.
Statement
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.