Fiber Artist Katherine Lawrie Reminds Us Art Comes in Many Forms

Sometimes we may forget that art is not always about paint and canvas. It is not always about ink on paper, or even spray paint on walls. Art comes in so many forms, and we’re thrilled to be presenting urban art in all its wonderful, creative media, including fiber art, at Hello World, opening this Saturday, April 20th at The Service Station. 

Katherine Lawrie is a talented fiber artist from Los Angeles, specializing in weaving, embroidery and quilting. Through narrative self-portraiture, she explores discovery, confrontation, and preservation of image and identity. Lawrie’s work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Seoul, South Korea. You can see it this weekend in Los Feliz/Silverlake.

Iviva Olenick Will Have You in Stiches

Hello World is blessed to welcome yet another amazing woman to the line up of our first in a series of urban art events at The Service Station in Los Feliz. Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist focusing on the intersection of women's handcrafts, particularly embroidery; contemporary language; and our reliance on digital media (Facebook, Twitter, text messaging). Muriel Guepin Gallery represents Iviva's small-scale, narrative embroideries in New York City. Additionally, Iviva has exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York, and other national venues. Currently, Iviva is embroidering Twitter "poetry" through her Brooklyn Arts Council-funded project, @EmbroideryPoems #BrooklynTweets. Tweet her @IvivaOlenick or @EmbroideryPoems, and your "poem" might end up in stitches.

Come and see her work in person this Saturday!

Embroderies Hardest, Alaina Varrone

Embroidery, something that could very well considered soft and delicate, but what happens when images of girls with axes, girls in coffins and nudity is embroidered?  Embroidery artist Alaina Varrone does just that.  Which is EXACTLY why she is one of the exhibiting artists of HELLO WORLD.  Because seriously...hello world..check this out.  Explore her art and see her mind and realize how cool her concepts really are.

Alaina Varrone is an embroidery artist from New Haven,Connecticut and will be showing her artwork for the upcoming Hello World exhibit opening on April 20, 2013 at The Service Station in Los Feliz.  Born in 1982 to a family of weirdos and storytellers, she uses this to guide her creativity to tell her own stories using embroidery.  She is influences by history, culture and the esoteric, with a focus on strong female characters. 

Welcome to her kingdom...

 

Please join us, April 20, 2013 for the opening of HELLO WORLD featuring artwork by Alaina Varrone and many other talented artists for everyone to explore.