Christina P. Day
Pointer, 2019
Hand cut and collaged flooring salvage, wood, glue
17 x 10-1/4 x 1-1/2"

About the work
Pointer is a part of a series I have been working on for the past five years where I collage broken, found fragments of linoleum into low profile sculptures. The pieces are collaged in a way that enhances a sense of history and time that the material sustains through use and demolition. Forms have taken shape into evolving bouquets and broken pattern repeats, with aesthetic details that though fixed in place, appear to be waking up again.

Bio

Christina P. Day's art practice recontextualizes roles related to material lifespan: designer, fabricator, owner, maintainer. Her improvisational building language stems from textile design strategy and is focused on the conversation of material as content. Her work takes form in architectural installation, surfacing methods, textile pattern logic and physical match finding. Day is a full-time faculty member of the Fiber Department at Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), where her teachings focus on cloth production methods and experimental fashion. Recent exhibitions and research on material history have been completed at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (Arlington, VA), Commonweal (Philadelphia, PA), Winterthur (Wilmington, DE), Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE) and Kirkcaldy Museum (Kirkcaldy, Scotland). She maintains her home and studio in Philadelphia, PA.

www.chrissyday.com
Instagram