Delaney Conner "Calm Down"

Delaney Conner "Calm Down" 2023

Fiber Art: Fiber (Punch Needle Embroidery), Framed
Dimensions: Artwork 24 x 30in; Framed 25 x 31in
Unique
Signed on Recto and Verso, Includes Signed Certificate of Authenticity 

Delaney is a New York City based artist whose classical background of being trained in traditional architecture has manifested into her emerging career as a highly technical fiber artist. Her work is inspired by the female experience and is a technical overlap between her soft skills in embroidery and her spatial and conceptual training as an architect. The geometric relationships of her abstractions, and the scale with which she works, challenges the normative domestic understanding of 'soft crafts'. Being a perfectionist, her work is acutely focused on the intentional placement and scale of each hand-stitch to create her large-scale 2-D fiber sculpture works. Delaney's utilization of the punch needle technique deviates from her training in architectural watercolor rendering, but one that can be equated to “painting with textiles”. Delaney currently lives and practices in New York City and is actively exhibiting works all across the US.

“Rejecting the insinuations often thrust upon the female form, Delaney’s works present highly rigid and resolutely geometric portraits of women, without a stroke of curvature. Their depiction of fractured facial profiles calls out the notion of discomfort from unwanted attention and mis-placed celebration of beauty that women receive simply by just being out in the world. The Artist presents a reaction-driven portrayal of those exchanges, and simultaneously shows strength embodied in female agency. These works re-examine our perceptions on “social appropriateness”. The Artist's mission is to abstract identifiable features and remove individual characteristics to varying degrees, creating broadly familiar subjects that reflect femininity as part of the Whole rather than the Individual. The textures and micro-patterns in the thread-work accent the idea that there is no definable limit from where the fabric that we wear ends and our more personal and emotional inner weavings begin.” - Delaney Conner