Katherine Allen is a sculptor who has made Mixed Media Textile Constructions her primary art form since the late 1990’s. Her work has appeared in many prominent venues among them the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Whistler Art Museum, the University of South Florida, Florida Atlantic University, the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and many National and International Competitions. She is a graduate of the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where she worked with such well-known artists as Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Richard Nonas and Yoko Ono.

Angel’s Trumpet
$240

Cotton duck, cotton and metallic threads, batting
Pigment dyeing, silk-screening, collage, laminating, stitching

My subject is Nature in movement, mark and form. I am interested in evoking her keenly joyous moments with their celebratory gestures and energetic shapes. I begin with a piece of heavy cotton or silk and rapidly, without too much advance planning, cover the fabric’s surface with pigment using a monoprint screening process. An unpredictable and surprising result occurs every time. The shapes and lines that occur with each falling splash of ink and tossing of cloth or string express a beautiful physical logic. Stitching and combining multiple prints highlights and clarifies the serendipitous rhythms and associations developed during the printing process. I try to preserve the fresh and unfiltered aspect of the creative process as much as possible in the finished artwork. My goal is to capture the gestures of Nature in order to build a bridge of her uniqueness to a place that refreshes the spirit.