the Work
Oil Painting, 6 feet tall
Currently, the artist is developing a series of beaded, kinetic sculptures that explore the idea of kinship in our contemporary lives and throughout time.
She spent a decade working with fabric, primarily silk, hand dying and texturing the close using the medium of Arashi Shibori, a method used to pleat cloth around a pipe or pole by wrapping it with thread. The resulting texture is intended to mimic the movements on the surface of the Puget Sound. The fabrics were used for blankets, clothing, and scarves.
Rynearson curated and exhibited in SHARING BLANKETS at the Wallowa Nez Perce Homeland with Celeste Whitewolf, Joe Feddersen, Paige Pettibon, and Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco.
the artist