Day 4236: Peter Fredericksen and Uncle Owen..

 

 

 

"Agenda": Collage, Watercolor, Ink, digital.

  

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Peter Frederiksen Dramatizes the Dark Humor of Classic Cartoons in His Cropped Embroideries

The days keep getting longer.” All images © Peter Frederiksen

Chicago-based artist Peter Frederiksen (previously) pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity. Cropping a single outlandish action or event, Frederiksen uses free-motion machine embroidery to stitch stylized compositions that, out of context, exaggerated moments in cartoons to dramatize them further into absurdity, and emphasize their dark humor.

“Start in the middle and work back”

Recent works include a Looney Tunes-style mishmash of feet and fists that burst through a bulging door in “Some locks won’t hold” and the tongue-in-cheek archery challenge of “Going easy on myself.” Often focusing on escalated tensions, the embroideries accentuate moments of high anxiety in a nostalgic, comforting childhood medium.

“Some locks won’t hold”

Frederiksen has started to switch to digital jacquard weavings for larger pieces. The base becomes a guide for his stitches and provides a colorful backing, which allows for less dense compositions. He’s also incorporated more unwieldy crops, including in works like “The days keep getting longer,” portraying a preposterously elongated filing cabinet.

“Closer with every cut”

In April, Frederiksen will open a solo show at Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, along with a dual show in June at UNION Gallery in London. He plans to release a limited-edition print with All Star Press on April 25 and has a candle collaboration coming this spring with Varyer. Follow his latest works and  his workshops in Chicago on Instagram.

   

“Going easy on myself”

  

“Interrogation of desire”

Back home in the OC!

Chapel Hill Post Card Mural

Grandhunk#2, Jake, and I flew home Sunday early evening, after church and Wonder Women's tradition of two casserole and goodies for Easter lunch.

I am thinking of our Uncle Owen today, as his birthday is today, April 1st. 

Uncle Owen was a master teacher, as was his wife, Aunt Pauline, my Mom's older sister. He was also a farm owner, business man and a terrific father of three college graduate daughters, 6 grandchildren and even more great-grandchildren. He loved his family, but he saved a little room for cousin Erin, an only child, who grew up to be Wonder Woman! He said he counted her as a granddaughter, and she felt that love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNCLE OWEN.

 

 

 

 

  

 

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