“Recovery/Restoration"
11 Thistle Patch Lane, Sag Harbor (North Haven), NY 11963
BIO: Erica-Lynn Huberty earned her MFA in Painting from Bennington College, though she has engaged with needlework and the fiber arts since childhood. Her art has been exhibited at the Southampton Arts Center, Racine Art Museum, WI; David&Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn; Ricco Maresca Gallery and Denise Bibro Fine Arts in Manhattan; Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton. She has created site-specific installations at an abandoned beach house in Bridgehampton, for MATTA in SoHo, the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum in Sag Harbor, NY, and on Mary Mattingly’s Wetland, for The Parrish Art Museum’s ambitious “Radical Seafaring” exhibition.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Her work is fiber-based, and mingles textiles and sewing arts techniques with watercolor and ink, embroidery, crochet and knitting, loom-woven grounds, mediums overlapping as if done simultaneously, and exploring the historical tradition of “women’s work.” The process is at once tedious, time-consuming and physically demanding, as well as a symbol of feminine self-worth. Sometimes, the narrative is allowed to develop organically from textures and images on existing textiles, or in segments of her own sketches, scraps of trim, lace and appliqués, crocheted strands; at other times, a set mythos is constructed from her own fictional or autobiographical narratives. She is informed by 17th-19th Century naturalist drawings and the fragility of endangered environments, flora and fauna, and vanishing historically-significant sites.
www.ericalynnhuberty.com
elh@ericalynnhuberty.com