elizabeth sinchak: emerging artist

Thursday, September 24, 2009

elizabeth sinchak: As a recent graduate of Chatham University I have attained a double major in art history and studio arts and a minor in print journalism. Throughout my education I often focused on cloth production processes and the human anthropological relationship to the textile and corporeal adornment. Artistically, my work is informed by my art historical research and I produce objects of a minimalist orientation that exhibit abstract ornamental motifs. I like to draw from traditional Slavic and Southeast Asian designs, whereby I invest the ornamental with the organic, anthropomorphizing the static pattern. As a result the decorative commingles with the pseudoscientific, and evocations of growth, degradation, and accretion emerge. I tend to approach the artistic process from a very theoretical vantage that I believe lends itself to the production of artwork that is both gutteral and precise. Most importantly, however, I value high quality craftsmanship and attention to detail. I contend that well produced objects are indications of both personal and cultural pride, and therefore serve as objects of enrichment for the demographic intended to consume them.