SINGLE STORY by Ingrid Restemayer

1/15/23-3/15/23

Ingrid Restemayer is a fiber artist and print maker based in Minneapolis, MN. Her mixed media artwork incorporates traditional hand-embroidery techniques on paper, collaged with hand-pulled dry point prints.

Her work has always had a hint of storytelling with the inclusion of my intaglio images as pseudo-illustrations when paired with hand-embroidery.  But the work in Single Story takes the imagery more into the realm of the vernacular. In this body of work she continues to combine printmaking, collage and stitching. This particular work, however, began during pandemic lock downs – when we were all ordered to stay home.  The home, the house, became the central location for all life’s activities.

Single Story takes the idea of the house as a situation of place and circumstance.  The basis for each piece is, of course, the house. I depict it as an icon of the colonial home, of the American dream.

Each icon is overlaid with a stitched or collaged element. Even in its simplicity – a few stitches, French knots, or the image of a chicken – these elements can completely change the implied situation. The combination tells an individual, single story.

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