Jan R Carson
Loveland, Colorado
I work exclusively with silk fabric, creating wall art and kinetic sculpture.
Message
Jan R. Carson is an artist working in Loveland, Colorado. She received her MFA in fibers from Colorado State University. Born in Oklahoma, her education also includes a Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of University Studies from Oklahoma State University, and a student printmaking internship through the OSU Art Department with Universal Limited Art Editions in New York.
Carson is the artist-owner of Moon Lily Mobiles, Inc., specializing in original mobile designs. Her site-specific aerial sculptures have been commissioned by Kaiser Permanente, Centura Health, and Rideout Cancer Center, among others. In 2018, she was awarded the Grand Prize in the Arrow Five Years Out Challenge for her pairing of textile art and LED light. Her work is featured in the books Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra F. Stanton (2018) and Bojagi: Design and Techniques of Korean Textile Art by Sara Cook (2019). Carson’s five-paneled illuminated work, The Screaming Dreams of Flowers, is now held in the permanent collection of the City of Loveland, Colorado.
Statement
My textile art is sewn in repetitive cycles of cutting and stitching, mirroring my restless nature and desire to “stir” the materials and composition. The subjects are traced from my own body’s outline and placed within nonrepresentational environments to focus and isolate the scene. Most often, the narrative reflects my feelings of disconnection or loss of control. I present my textile work on a light box substrate to imply that something greater (and inherently positive) is at work, even in our darkest moments and journeys of transformation.