Neo-Funk embroidery workshops
Author: Mosaiko EditorPosted on: Jan 26th 2012
By Blanka Amezkua
As part of her “Delicious Obsessions” show currently at Rooster and curated by Ilias Zaimis, the artist will offer a series of free workshops. Come by and learn basic embroidery techniques and talk with the artist about her process, materials and concepts. These embroidery workshops are based on a technique she crafted in recent years and was recently labeled as “Neo-Funk” embroidery by Susan Sider curator of the New York Fiber in the 21st Century show at Lehman College in 2011.
The workshops will take place during the following days and times:
January 30, 31 and February 1; from 16:00-18:00 @ Rooster, Agia Irinis Sq. 4 – Monasteraki
If you are interested in participating email the artist directly and she will inform you about space availability. Or simply stop by Rooster, say hi, see the finished embroideries, and meet the artist and others at work. Capacity is limited to 10 participants per session/each session is two hours long.
Email: blanka@blankaamezkua.com
About the artist…
Formally trained as a painter, Mexican-born American artist Blanka Amezkua has been living in Athens since May of 2010, and she has been using traditional art forms, embroidery and crochet, to articulate ideas about culture, gender, and notions of identity for many years now. Interested in Mexican comic’s reductive representation of women’s bodies and identity, she has appropriated the female image and liberated it from its stifling pulp fiction world. By doing so, she has created a new visual language, born by the implausible union of domestic practices and the recurrent female imagery in Mexican comics.
Some of these embroideries are currently on view at Rooster café/bar in her show “Delicious Obsessions” in Agias Irinis Square until February 15th!
Additional information about Blanka’s work and projects: www.blankaamezkua.com, www.3wow.org, www.bronxbbp.com
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