COLOR STORY
KATHRIN NIEMANN / KRISTEN COOPER
OPENING: First Thursday, September 3, 6PM
EXHIBITION: September 3 - October 24, 2015
The natural dyer collects, processes, and creates color from bark, seeds, insects, roots, leaves, flowers and fruit. Berlin-based textile artists Kathrin Niemann and Kristen Cooper (re)present the ancient craft of natural dyeing in their collaborative exhibition, COLOR STORY. The duo manipulates familiar scenarios from art history, science, museum displays, and daily life into a story that revolves around the aesthetics of the process of natural dyeing and the mindset of the natural dyer.
“Perception of the everyday landscape changes [as a natural dyer]. The trees in a parking lot or the random bush growing from a crack in an alleyway suddenly have potential. Plants are no longer green with brown branches, they’re maroon, violet, pewter, coral, golden yellow, blue, …”
Niemann and Cooper arrived in Boise mid-August to begin their two week work period at MING Studios. Parallel to the photography, projection, textile, and installation work in COLOR STORY the artists have worked within the community, making pieces from the gardens of Boise locals and mapping dye plants within the city.
Kathrin Niemann and Kristen Cooper have been collaborating for the last 5 years with a focus on textile art and design. Niemann graduated with a BFA in 2004 from the AKI (Academie voor beeldende Kunst), located in Enschede, the Netherlands. Cooper received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and a M.F.A. from the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands. Both have exhibited their work internationally in countries such as Finland, Japan, China, Mexico, Thailand, and The Netherlands. In 2012, Niemann and Cooper founded Driftwood –plant-dyed organic-clothing- and opened the first natural dye studio in Berlin, Germany.
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KATHRIN NIEMANN / KRISTEN COOPER
OPENING: First Thursday, September 3, 6PM
EXHIBITION: September 3 - October 24, 2015
The natural dyer collects, processes, and creates color from bark, seeds, insects, roots, leaves, flowers and fruit. Berlin-based textile artists Kathrin Niemann and Kristen Cooper (re)present the ancient craft of natural dyeing in their collaborative exhibition, COLOR STORY. The duo manipulates familiar scenarios from art history, science, museum displays, and daily life into a story that revolves around the aesthetics of the process of natural dyeing and the mindset of the natural dyer.
“Perception of the everyday landscape changes [as a natural dyer]. The trees in a parking lot or the random bush growing from a crack in an alleyway suddenly have potential. Plants are no longer green with brown branches, they’re maroon, violet, pewter, coral, golden yellow, blue, …”
Niemann and Cooper arrived in Boise mid-August to begin their two week work period at MING Studios. Parallel to the photography, projection, textile, and installation work in COLOR STORY the artists have worked within the community, making pieces from the gardens of Boise locals and mapping dye plants within the city.
Kathrin Niemann and Kristen Cooper have been collaborating for the last 5 years with a focus on textile art and design. Niemann graduated with a BFA in 2004 from the AKI (Academie voor beeldende Kunst), located in Enschede, the Netherlands. Cooper received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and a M.F.A. from the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands. Both have exhibited their work internationally in countries such as Finland, Japan, China, Mexico, Thailand, and The Netherlands. In 2012, Niemann and Cooper founded Driftwood –plant-dyed organic-clothing- and opened the first natural dye studio in Berlin, Germany.
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