Match 2011

Meaning in Abeyance

Working with materials that are intrinsically seductive, sensuously attractive and easily made beautiful, has led Karin Birch to vigilantly ruminate on meaning, on how art requires more than surface appeal to engage the emotions and the mind. Material alone may mesmerize for a moment, and visualized time caught by hand-work is captivating, but there must ultimately be fertile ground for deeper and more meaningful experience. Her varied materials allow her to synthesize the naturalness and fluidity of paint with the patterned regularity of textiles, resulting in a depth of aesthetic complexity absent in a simple painting or textile piece. Her work proceeds from slowness, from observing, imagining, and from a fascination with pattern and line.

Visit Birch’s blog at karinbirch.blogspot.com.