Artist in Residence: Pat Hertzberg
This pioneer of the ‘thread web’ technique creates highly textured tactile pieces that almost beg to be touched.
Alton fibre and mixed-media artist Pat Hertzberg’s unyielding artistic drive lies in creating mesmerizing and tactile textures. Pat pioneered her distinctive “thread-web” technique of stitching together huge volumes of small fabric patches or strips; some larger works comprise more than 1,000 individual pieces. She cuts each of these pieces from larger swaths, which she has often hand-dyed or painted earlier in the process.
“Viewers standing before my work may be admiring it or trying to figure out how it was made. They might be fighting the urge to touch it – or they could be deciding what to have for dinner,” she jests. “All options are fine with me. Besides self-expression, the real goal of art is to connect and to provide the conduit for unhurried reflection.”
Find her at pathertzberg.com
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