Laurie Lambrecht (1955 – Present) is an American visual artist based in New York who focuses on surface, texture, color, and form. Her photographs are primarily of her work in other mediums, such as fibers and paints. Lambrecht’s pictures that stood out the most to me are from her series Bark Cloth. In it, Lambrecht prints photographs of different tree barks onto fabric, which have been intricately and delicately embroidered with multicolored threads. Some patterns of thread are seamlessly integrated along grooves in the bark, whereas others create a contrast by going against the grain. For all of these images, I liked how Lambrecht zoomed into the bark such that it took up the entirety of the frame. It allows the viewer to focus on the identifying all the tiny details in the bark; some of them are less noticeable than others. Not only that, but her printing her images on fabrics makes it feel more fluid. Her pictures also inspired me to consider texture in my images.
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- https://laurielambrecht.com/PORTFOLIO/Bark-Cloth/1/thumbs-caption