JOY KLOMAN
artist statement
series, titled, Patterns. When she traveled through Amsterdam and several cities in Hungary, she was inspired by the use of pattern in the architecture of each region. Kloman states, "Pattern utilized in structural design aids in establishing a sense of unity and solidity. Patterns can be very comforting, because they provide an outline, a blueprint— a sense of what to expect, but patterns can also be extremely confining in their rigid adherence to structure, order, and repetition." She began thinking of other ways that people use patterns: in politics, communication, family behaviors, social mores, and lifestyles. She started her series by depicting a unisex pattern that she purchased in Budapest, Hungary. Kloman chose a clothing pattern because she wanted to use an object that is delicate, prearranged, and two-dimensional, however, when combined and stitched together, is soft but sturdy, three- dimensional, and capable of enveloping the human form. Placing pattern pieces next to one another creates dynamic shapes, tangents, and interspaces. Ambiguity and tension, yet harmony and unity are simultaneously expressed in the placement of these forms. |
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Kloman was formerly an associate professor of art at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. Her art is in the following permanent, public collections:
Balatonfüred City Hall, Hungary Gulf Coast Museum of Art, FL Isom Center for Gender Studies, MS Meridian Museum of Art, MS Pensacola Museum of Art, FL Ringling Museum of Art, FL |
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