Textile Constructions
Terry Jarrard-Dimond
Clemson, South Carolina

Showing
August 28 - September 26
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Artist Statement
My current work is part of my continuing love of textiles and the possibilities that available when working with fabric.

I have explored many approaches to my work but the content has consistently been the exploration of mysterious spaces and the entities or structures that inhabit them.  These spaces can be vast landscapes or tight interiors.  Sometimes the viewer is looking from inside a space to a larger exterior view or it can be the reverse, looking from the outside into a private space.  These works are filled by structures or beings, which present themselves as I work.   Color  and geometry help me open the door to creative ideas and my pieces develop improvisationaly.  I work from thumbnail sketches and engage in a running dialogue with my composition and materials until the piece is complete.

While much of my work has been sculpture, my current fabric constructions are two-dimensional and these works began during the time I worked as a designer in the textile industry.  Using fabrics that I hand dye, I cut my fabrics free hand into shapes that are engineed and stitched into compositions.  I think of these finished pieces as physical records of my creative experience.