mnartists.org: Mary K. Cain

FELIX IN IRELAND, AGAIN

Mary K. Cain — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:41:36 GMT

Felix at the Teampall Iarlath in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland

FELIX IN IRELAND

Mary K. Cain — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:39:00 GMT

Felix at the Teampall Iarlath in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland

"TERREMOTO"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:36:21 GMT

"My work is based on the specific characteristics of fiberart - color, texture, flexibility and extension through embroidery and sewing. I try to express the lyricism of human life. I make no apologies for wanting my work to be visually delightful! Today, isolation and 'personal content' are controversial issues in the arts. Sharing the personal can be a gift of common language that can transcend imagined differences."

Mary Cain

"INVASIONS"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:31:40 GMT

"I want a sense of intellectual involvement with my art - a strong connection with the history of textiles and the history of art. Just adapting traditional techniques to contemporary tastes doesn't make contemporary art! I think that textiles have the most human vocabulary, the richest history of all. I want to do work in textiles that could not have been done in any other medium."

Mary Cain

"HARMODIOUS"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:22:22 GMT

"Most public art expresses an impersonal modernism, a false modernism. Works are filled with pattern without being specific about content. Many people are afraid of the 'personal' in art. I am not! All along I have known that with fiberart we were touching powerful materials! We need to show the unseen images and tell the unheard stories. Fiberart can connect the private and the public, the personal and the collective, the socio-political and the cultural."

Mary Cain

"THE MYSTICAL ROSE"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:14:57 GMT

"SEASHELLS"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:12:07 GMT

"My work process is a debate between myself and my materials. In this give-and-take, I need to be open to my materials, what they will and will not do, how they look when put together. It is a debate that happens until the works are finished."

Mary Cain

"MAMA TETA!"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:36:23 GMT

"I want to create works that are both exquisite and provocative! Utilizing the characteristics and history that fiberart has to offer - and by plunging headfirst into the richness of the medium - artists who work with fiber have the potential to alter society's perception of art and broaden the way in which art can inform our lives."
Mary Cain "I want to create works that are both exquisite and provocative! Utilizing the characteristics and history that fiberart has to offer - and by plunging headfirst into the richness of the medium - artists who work with fiber have the potential to alter society's perception of art and broaden the way in which art can inform our lives."
Mary Cain MAMA TETA! a fiber-artwork by Mary Cain, 2002. Suspension - 137 cm. by 137 cm., cotton, knitted, with beads and metallics. This fiber-work was included in a group-exhibition CONTEMPORANIS A LA BARCELONETA at the Centre Cívic Barceloneta in Barcelona, Spain, from October 17 thru November 8, 2002. The exhibition was curated by Txalo Toloza-Fernández.

"SEASHELLS" [detail]

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:27:01 GMT

"SEASHELLS" [detail]

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:20:44 GMT

"TANGO" [detail]

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:14:51 GMT

"TANGO"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:12:01 GMT

"I create my art work from something quite ordinary. It is that first bold gesture of the hand, a commitment, that is so frightening. I begin, taking risks, keeping the mind and eyes open. The rest of the process just flows, like breathing. It's magic! The content shapes the form of what I make. The degree of lightness prompts the clarity. The combination of fiber effects produces meaning and communication. The forms grow out of their own context."

Mary Cain

"DADA"

Mary K. Cain — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:06:42 GMT

"I seek to possess rather than to picture my ideas in fiberart, and have thereby expanded my vocabulary in the medium. It is my intent to retain the integrity of different techniques while setting a visual rhythm that can be felt by examining - touching - the artwork! After evaluating the visual strength of a finished piece, I recognize new possibilities to investigate with the materials. I then use these materials to initiate again an exploration of world and self."

Mary Cain

"TEAPOT"

Mary K. Cain — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 03:07:07 GMT

"There is just something so marvelous about artistic creativity and its ability to endure and survive. And, I love the fact that certain traditions will be continued. I like the idea that people will keep things alive, like knitting, or crocheting. I think it is wonderful that people make that decision. There is tremendous information about people - individually, and about cultures - in what we wear!"

Mary Cain

"VEGETABLES"

Mary K. Cain — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 03:01:40 GMT

"I think the most important component in current textile work is its ability to carry an idea or communicate an emotion. Fiberart has gained more respect, has made a welcome shift from being technique-based and material-based to being idea-based. In the future I hope textiles will enjoy an even broader acceptance within the art world."

Mary Cain