Nava Lubelski by Laura Marsden

This artist I came across on foundation! I really liked her pieces and the idea behind them.
They are made up by making spills on cloth or paper and then stitching into them thou they have much deeper meanings. Iv added a statement by Nava that helps make sense of her work.


"My work explores the twin impulses to ruin and repair by juxtaposing rapid acts of destruction, such as staining and cutting, with painstaking restorative labor. Embroideries are hand-stitched over stains and rips. The marks are found on linens or are created by cutting and spilling onto canvas. The work scrambles expressions of aggression with masochistic patience and sublimation and plays with the feminine and the sexual through the graphic form of the "stain" and the adding of peek-a-boo, lace inlays to repair cut holes that expose the hidden space behind the canvas. Some are hung off wall to reveal the secret and unintended marks of the verso." Nava Lubelski