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.
Here’s a slide show of her work:
