Pat Kroth

Like a magpie, I collect and incorporate found clothing, fabrics, and objects with interesting texture, color, or personal significance into my fiber artwork. I am drawn to cast-off, remnant and forgotten materials. My artwork constructions are comprised of layers of materials: re-purposed clothing, hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, yarns, cords, fibers, netting, found objects, and trapped threads that have been collaged, meticulously machine stitched or sometimes stapled together to create something new. Often, I think of my work as a random depository for the flotsam and jetsam of life. These repurposed clothes, candy wrappers, buttons, paperclips, jewelry, toys or other seemingly simple or mundane materials, enhance my work. The artworks echo the historical shadows of cloth and fibers from a previous use. I enjoy the playful ambiguity and richness of surface which invites the viewer to come closer, explore and to look further than just the riotous surface of things. These fiber works engage in a conversation about the abundance, role and value of physical objects in our culture.

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