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Rebecca Ringquist
Artist Information
Born: 1978, Pentwater, MI
Currently Resides: Chicago, IL
Contact Information
Email:
rebeccaringquist (at) gmail (dot) com
www.rebeccaringquist.com
Medium(s) Worked in:
Textile
Installation
Teaching Certified: No
Available for Commission: Yes
HPAC Exhibitions
2008, Soft Life
Artist Statement
I tell love stories and create veiled fractured narratives full of double entendre. My work has been inspired of late by an old autograph book, ripe with flippant sexual innuendos and roses are red poetry.
I alternate between hand embroidery and machine stitching. The harsh difference between the rates of speed with which I work conveys a complicated message. Although the machine stitching is very labor intensive, it also carries with it a sense of violence and aggression, reflecting the tangled messy nature of relationships. The thick orange flames, which lick up at the bed suggestively, are quite different from the sweet daisy imagery that lies beneath.
My work is at times careful, contrasted with moments of fast machine-stitched frenzy, expressing implicit and explicit intensities, and alternating between innocence and recklessness.
Artist Bio
Rebecca Ringquist is a Chicago based visual artist. Her drawings on paper and cloth explore issues of identity through thinly veiled metaphors utilizing old-fashioned imagery and double entendres. Her work has been exhibited nationally. Ringquist earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Fiber and Material Studies department, where she is now an instructor. She is also the director of textile arts at Lillstreet Art Center.
Press & Publications
Adrianne Goodrich, Proximity Magazine featured artist (Issue #2, 2008)
Amy Honchell, Chicago Artists’ News “The Rise of the Haptic: Fiber Art in Chicago” (July/August, 2008)
Denise M. Campbell The Art of the Double Entendre, A Tear in the Fabric Exhibition Catalog (May 2008)
Ashley Schwellenbach A Stitch Runs Through It New Time San Luis Obispo, Volume 22, Issue 40 (May 2008)
Patricia Courson Soft Life Flavorpill (January 20, 2008)
Michelle Grabner Time Out Chicago “Soft Life” (February28, 2008)
Allison Peters Soft Life Exhibition Catalogue (January 2008)
Janeil Englestad Play Exhibition Catalogue (August 2006)