Nicki Voss
Textilepop
"I love the duality that is proposed by the quilt form; it is a familiar object of comfort and warmth and equally an object for artistic visual stimulation and inquiry. It is this precise juxtaposition—is it this or is it that—that I am drawn to in my textile work. I am captivated by the concept of the visual twofold."
Nicki Voss’s work is characterized by a fascination with mapping, geometry, and geography. Her work in quilted textiles originates with outdoor photography translated into shapes and color compositions materialized in cloth. This technique evolved from earlier work in paper with three-dimensional and origami-like qualities. Quilt making, with the use of templates, grids, and math, was a likely extension in which to apply systematic collage techniques to cloth instead of print media. The slow, methodical, and organic process of arranging small fabric shapes into dense color compositions creates a tangible landscape, equally abstract and structurally familiar.
Nicki Voss is based in Los Angeles County, California. She is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, with BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Art, and holds a Design and Technology Diploma from Richmond upon Thames College in the UK.
Nicki Voss’s work is characterized by a fascination with mapping, geometry, and geography. Her work in quilted textiles originates with outdoor photography translated into shapes and color compositions materialized in cloth. This technique evolved from earlier work in paper with three-dimensional and origami-like qualities. Quilt making, with the use of templates, grids, and math, was a likely extension in which to apply systematic collage techniques to cloth instead of print media. The slow, methodical, and organic process of arranging small fabric shapes into dense color compositions creates a tangible landscape, equally abstract and structurally familiar.
Nicki Voss is based in Los Angeles County, California. She is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, with BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Art, and holds a Design and Technology Diploma from Richmond upon Thames College in the UK.
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