Rusty Scruby: Clouds
Knitting鈥攚hich the artist has practiced since childhood鈥攎oonlights as fiber paintings in Rusty Scruby鈥檚 new body of work. This one picks up where his knitted series stretched over wooden armatures left off. To both, he brings a mind trained in engineering and music composition, allowing new lexicons to emerge. He achieves tonal range by commissioning a local dyer or employs yarn gathered from across the state; all bow to memory, as familiar photographs dwell behind the patterns. Pixelation knots the past into new constellations, and the slippages between imagination and reality are like dropped stitches retrieved again. Scruby is interested in seeing how far he can delve into abstraction鈥攊nformation loss鈥攚hile retaining figurative sense, leaving room for nostalgia. His patterned, hexagonal compositions鈥攚hich employ the organic building blocks that echo honeycomb or wasps鈥� nests鈥攄eceive: heterogeneity of color and homogeneity of pattern creates a tension (also a code). As intimate as they are objective, his fiber paintings exist between the supple loop of memory and the hard needle of fact.
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Knitting鈥攚hich the artist has practiced since childhood鈥攎oonlights as fiber paintings in Rusty Scruby鈥檚 new body of work. This one picks up where his knitted series stretched over wooden armatures left off. To both, he brings a mind trained in engineering and music composition, allowing new lexicons to emerge. He achieves tonal range by commissioning a local dyer or employs yarn gathered from across the state; all bow to memory, as familiar photographs dwell behind the patterns. Pixelation knots the past into new constellations, and the slippages between imagination and reality are like dropped stitches retrieved again. Scruby is interested in seeing how far he can delve into abstraction鈥攊nformation loss鈥攚hile retaining figurative sense, leaving room for nostalgia. His patterned, hexagonal compositions鈥攚hich employ the organic building blocks that echo honeycomb or wasps鈥� nests鈥攄eceive: heterogeneity of color and homogeneity of pattern creates a tension (also a code). As intimate as they are objective, his fiber paintings exist between the supple loop of memory and the hard needle of fact.
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