Featured Artist

I am a Fiber Artist Living in Norther VA. My primary focus has been textile design, namely tapestry weaving and recently, I has started working with silk fibers and creating silk fusions /silk paper artworks. Over the year I have been participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Some exhibitions include: (2021) From Lausanne to Beijing-11th International Fiber Art Biennale;(2020) 5th international Triennial of Textile Art "TexpoART" Theodor Pallady" Art Galleries Iași, Romania; “Artists at work” – Smithsonian Museum, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington DC; (2019)Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries - Australian tapestry workshop, Melbourne, Australia; (2017)6th International Triennial of Tapestry "Novi Sad 2017" Serbia. International (2016) From Lausanne toBeijing-9th International Fiber Art Biennale - Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China to name a few. I have received multiple awards: Honorable Mention at the National juried Show Fiber III,(2020); Award of Excellence from Lausanne to Beijing 9th International Fiber Art Biennale. (2016); The Shayna Heisman Simkin Best in Show Award - (2013). and was the Finalist of 2019 and 2015 Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries - Melbourne, Australia.

I view art as a language uniquely suited to serve us in ways a verbal language cannot. My art is a creative act to express my feelings and emotions, using fiber medium such as Gobelin Tapestry and Silk Fusion. By creating my work, I intend to show the audience what I have seen and found interesting and beautiful in my life. I create a two-dimensional composition, rich with color and the texture of hand-woven textiles, or fiber by combining three dimensional forms around me and transforming them into a decorative or abstract image. While I create my art, I try to use natural resources such a wool and silk. However, I do not limit myself with only using natural material, and sometimes I mix with synthetic and artificial yarns, fibers, or different fabric scraps to give the composition the desired look and aesthetic. My creative process often starts from sketching design, small size painting, drawing, and/or making a collage, however, I particularly enjoy the actual process of weaving tapestry and silk fusion since I personally view it as a challenge of painting with yarn or silk fiber. Fiber art, like any other work of art, should make the viewer think. It should not tell the viewer what to think, but it should guide the viewers to think in a new way.

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