CHRIS CARPENTER

URBAN HIEROGLYPHS

Fine art using street text to develop a new visual context on etched & painted cotton upholstery velvet.

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBITIONS

LOOKING: Chet Holcomb Studio, Washington, DC
THE VELVET PRESS: Lava Lounge, Seattle, WA
NORTHWEST NOIR: Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA
CHRIS CARPENTER: Sony Art Walk, San Diego, CA
FIBER SCULPTURE NATIONAL: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
DESIGNER CRAFTSMAN EXHIBITION: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
ROSCO'S GREATEST HITS: Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle, WA
TOYS DESIGNED BY ARTISTS: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
FIFTH INVITATIONAL FIBERS & FABRICS: llinois Stale Museum, Springfield, IL
CHRIS CARPENTER: Westlake Gallery, White Plains, NY
2nd NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PACKAGES: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
NEEDLE EXPRESSIONS: Center for the Arts, Tulsa, OK
QUILTFORMS: New Rochelle College, New Rochelle, NY
INTERWEAVE: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
CHRIS CARPENTER: Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle, WA
STITCHERY: Arts & Crafts Center, Pittsburg, PA

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

"Life & Arts", Seattle Post Intelligencer, 14 Aug. 2003
Arts, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE (April 2000), p.47
Gallery, AMERICAN CRAFT. Vol.41, No.3 (1981), p.66
Deboy, Kathleen, FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK (New York: Hastings House, 1980), P.64
Dryden, Deborah, FABRIC PAINTING & DYEING FOR THE THEATRE
    (Portsmouth, NH:Heinemann.1993), p.13.
Vosburg, Carolyn Hall, STITCHED and STUFFED ART (Worcester:Davis, 1979), pp.11,71
Hubbard,Guy, CHOOSING and EXPRESSING (Champaign: Benefic Press, 1987), pp.78

COLLECTIONS / COMMISSIONS / GRANTS

Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant
Avis Corporation
Illinois State University
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Arkansas Arts Center

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Apprentice The Fabric Workshop Philadelphia, PA
M.F.A. Fibers S. Illinois University
B.A. Fine Arts Indiana University