Jennifer McBrien
Baltimore, MD
Jennifer McBrien is a Baltimore textile artist who uses her sewing machine as a drawing tool to honor her fragile subjects
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This piece is titled "Kevin the Second”that is based off of my paintings I did based On contour line drawings of my student Kevin. Kevin has a Belted Kingfisher head with a teenager body and is freehand machine stitched on organza and appliqué and stitched on wood grain pattern fabric. The popular tulip seed that he is watching is freehand machine stitched on high quality felt. The fading radio is an image transfer on cotton that is appliquéd in felt that is sewn on.
This final piece is stretched on a wooden painting panel and then framed with a pine wood. The dimensions of this framed work is 11.5" X 9.5" X 2"
- Framed: 9.5 x 11.5 x 2 in
- Subject Matter: narrative figurative
- Collections: Watch Children
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