Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker
Born: 1950, Ohio

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4lw Supplication I, 5lw Supplication II,6lw Supplication III
dyed, stitched, drawn & folded: indigo, usuyo and shikibu, gampi’s, indigo, wax, ink, silk thread, silk mawata, logwood-dyed silk thread, and silk paper
46” x 32” x 1.75”, each, 2006
$5,000, each

2lw CAUTIONARY TALES, rag paper, silk thread, indigo, steel, 10’ x 8’ x 10’, 2004, $40,000

9lw Navigation [chart] Folios 126
dyed, stitched, drawn & folded: indigo, usuyo and shikibu, gampi’s, indigo, wax, ink, silk thread, silk mawata, logwood-dyed silk thread, and silk paper
13” x 19” x 6”, 2006
$3,200

Solo permanet collections and exhibition venues:
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, (The Navigation Cycle); Feldenheimer Gallery and Kaul Auditorium Foyer, Reed College, Portland, Oregon; The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, (Systems of Notation), Oregon (Navigation [Text]); Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon; Lane Community College Gallery, Eugene, Oregon (Ghost Stories); Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York; Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon; The Labyrinth /Toward Illumination; Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, (Labyrinthine: Jon Lodge and Linda Welker); Bellevue Art Museum, Washington.

Recipient:
Artist Residency at Caldera, Sisters, Oregon, 2003, 2006; Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, 2004; Individual Artist Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, Oregon, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007; Grant, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Visual Artist, New York, New York; Membership Merit Award, Museum Art School, Portland, Oregon.

8lw Navigation [chart] Folios 124
dyed, stitched, drawn & folded: indigo, usuyo and shikibu, gampi’s, indigo, wax, ink, silk thread, silk mawata, logwood-dyed silk thread, and silk paper, 13” x 19” x 6”, 2006, $3,200

My current work explores images of time and language, and ideas and conditions associated with memory, accumulation, obsession and longing. Text becomes the image. Reading becomes sensing. Cognition is subsumed by intuition. In working with a slow process of making drawn, stitched and woven marks, layering, obscuring, erasing and making again, I am searching out edges, the place between language and thought, the visual gap between boundless possibility and loss. My intention is to move the viewer into the realm of the liminal, the ethereal, the intangible, and to question the effect of shifting memory on both the intake of new ideas and the transformation of lived experience into story. In what ways does language fail us, and in what ways does it allow communication to take place? As memory distills, condenses and simplifies information, what allows that which remains to have such a powerful impact?
Lena McGrath Welker

3lw NOTATION (16)
soft ground etching from handwoven linen fragments, graphite ink on Rives BFK. Stitched with silk/stainless steelthread, 11.25" x 15.125", 2006
$600 unframed

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