Jeanne Connolly

Material Abstractions

Description
These works explore abstraction through the behavior of paint, pigment, and water-based materials. Fluid washes, layered pigments, and atmospheric color fields create compositions shaped by movement and material interaction. These pieces investigate how color and form emerge through the natural flow and transformation of materials.

Characteristics
watercolor and fluid pigment
layered washes
atmospheric color fields
organic abstract forms
movement created by water and pigment

Conceptual Focus
These works examine how abstraction can emerge through the interaction of materials themselves, allowing paint, water, and pigment to shape the composition.

Sculptural Textile Drawings

Description
These works explore drawing through textile. Thread, cord, wrapped fabric, and stitched structures create dimensional lines that move across painted or textile surfaces. Rather than building dense textile fields, these pieces use textile processes to create gesture, rhythm, and spatial movement. The textile elements function as sculptural marks that sit on top of the surface like drawings in relief.

Characteristics
  • couching
  • wrapped textile lines
  • looping structures
  • stitched gestures
  • textile acting as mark-making
  • open compositions with visible ground
Conceptual Focus
These works investigate how textile processes can behave like drawing—where thread and fabric become line, gesture, and movement across the surface.

Textile Relief Works

Description
These works construct richly layered surfaces through reclaimed textiles, stitching, patchwork, tufting, and fabric accumulation. Materials are cut, stitched, layered, and assembled to build sculptural compositions that extend from the wall. Drawing, color, and textile structure merge to create dimensional surfaces that blur the boundary between painting, collage, and textile sculpture.

Characteristics
  • layered textile surfaces
  • patchwork constructions
  • stitched textile structures
  • tufted or shredded fabric forms
  • dense material accumulation
  • sculptural relief surfaces
Conceptual Focus
These works transform reclaimed fabrics into tactile compositions where texture, color, and material structure become the primary language of the image.