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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The Guardians, 2022
The Guardians featured four figures that are freehand machine stitched. Three of the figures have bird heads and one gracious fish crow woman has wings. Hand embroidery has been used to emphasize the pattern from the narrative toile scene fabric to give these figures a powerful feeling of strength as well as transparency.
- Subject Matter: narrative figurative
- Collections: Bird Women Hoop Pieces
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