Winnie van der Rijn "In Case Of Emergency Break Glass"

Rescued American Flag Scraps, Digital Image Transfer and Hand Stitching on Cotton

Dimensions: 14in x 9in
Unique
Signed on Verso, Includes a Signed Certificate of Authenticity

Winnie van der Rijn is a multi-disciplinary artist of opportunity– collecting materials, experimenting with techniques, and pursuing her curiosities. Her art practice includes textiles, sculpture, collage, and collaboration (which she considers its art form). She plays well with others. Winnie actively exhibits her work throughout the United States and internationally.  A lifelong learner, Winnie graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 with a BA in Sociology. She is constantly trying to reconcile her deeply feminist outlook and leftist Berkeley education with her military upbringing. She has studied printmaking, sculpture, metalsmithing, and Marxist theory. In addition, Winnie has explored weaving, machine knitting, bookmaking, altars, exploding picture boxes, automata, shoe making, millinery, sewing, fusing, stamping, metal weaving, resin, riveting, precious metal clay, and mixed media. She is wildly curious about how things are made. Her recently completed project 'How to Dismantle the Patriarchy' has been shown in various locations including the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), Dairy Arts (Boulder, CO), Museum of Sonoma County (Santa Rosa, CA), The New Bauhaus (Iasi Romania), Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN) and the self-invented Museum of Natural Consequences (New York, NY). Winnie has completed residencies at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, FabScrap in NYC, Chateau Orquevaux in France, and MASSMoCA in Massachusetts. Winnie, a seventh-generation Californian, is currently based in New York. She and her husband are redefining what it means to be empty nesters.