Eva Wylie

13 3/8" x 15 3/8"

Framed.

evawylie.com

Artist statement:

I collect the images I use in my work from various sources including the Internet, water bottles, travel magazines, advertisements, and found objects. The work becomes a tapestry made up of fragments of contemporary culture and historical imagery from the past that conflates fantasy and realism. These images are compressed within a frame to stage conversations between nature and artifice, the organic and the synthetic, and the present and the past. Drawing on imagery through remnants, quotes and screen shots from a combination of disparate times, places and viewpoints- our everyday life is continually reframed. I attempt to balance the loss of an aesthetic sensibility in the images of a throwaway culture while working to adorn these images with elegance and beauty. Concerns of value and purpose in relation to beauty and labor is also explored. Fold Study 5 has been screenprinted on paper and silk with a costume frame.

Artist bio:

Eva Wylie holds an MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art and is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. She has exhibited at Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, Spacecamp, Baltimore, MD and Locust Projects, Miami, FL. Wylie has held residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Graff Ateliers, Montreal, Canada; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Wylie currently teaches Printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. A unique graphic dance that juxtaposes organic and synthetic imagery, her enigmatic work features a signature iconography that intimates how humanity and its detritus merge into the natural world in both familiar and unexpected encounters.