Deborah Winiarski works with fabric and color to create raised and textured relief surfaces that undulate across a picture plane. Her mixed-media relief paintings employ a variety of processes – printmaking, painting, drawing, machine and hand sewing, and both direct and indirect mark making – in order to capture in stillness a movement in time. Winiarski’s visual language explores the relationships, contradictions and juxtapositions of light, shadow, color, line and edge.
Color, form and line expand beyond the painting surface where painted fabric strips accrue to create raised and textured surfaces weaving, twisting, mingling, intertwining. The sewn folded strips provide form, dimension, depth and color; their edges, line. These free-formed relief paintings assert themselves in dimensional space.
The intent for the composed space is that it be contrapuntal yet harmonious; grounded yet fragile; still but silently in motion.