Abstract Fiber Art: Layer, Cut and Reveal
Event description
- Arts and entertainment
- Campus life
- Free
This spring, the Downtown Phoenix campus Library Vault Gallery showcases art by Debra Goley in "Abstract Fiber Art: Layer, Cut and Reveal," on display from January 9 until May 22 during regular library hours.
ASU students, faculty and staff can access the library with their ASU ID. For visitors, please email [email protected] to schedule a visit.
"Abstract Fiber Art: Layer, Cut and Reveal"
Break from traditional realism and interpret your subject in abstract form. Debra Goley has been exploring the use of fiber in two dimensions, manipulating designs with small cuts and broken threads, exposing subsequent layers to create more surprise dimensions. This technique involves color analysis, sketching a design, layering fabric and auditioning compositional poses. The artistic result is revealed much like a complex mystery, rendering the viewer a thought-provoking expression.
About artist Debra Goley
Art is Debra’s language, and it speaks of how she is innately wired. As an award-winning international and inspirational artist, beginning with a career as an architect, and now a full-time artist, art instructor and designer. The last decade has seen her working with fiber as an exciting extension of her portfolio, adding depth to her work after her mother left her with a plethora of fabric and a machine to draw with her needle. With a brush and a pencil in hand, Debra begins her designs by sketching to scale and allowing the form to follow concept. Her technique of piecing color value together and cutting through the multiple layers offers elements of mystery and intrigue. As a multimedia artist, Debra’s work and teaching style clearly reflect her life’s work, which is a continued exploration that has its roots in a life lived overseas and the experience of a multicultural community. Her subject matter ranges from natural landscapes, travel and the close-up snapshots of objects and time captured in a sketch journal. With each new project, her journey begins with research and analysis of a sketch subject, which takes her design from concept to an abstract expression of that subject. Debra is a resident of Goodyear, AZ, and enjoys sketching and morning hikes to view the sunrise. Back in the studio, she is found conjuring and cutting up new works yearning be freed from the design table and shared with viewers. To view more of her work, visit her website.