An Intimate Familiarity with Fabrics and Textiles

Following years of teaching at art museums and the mayhem of motherhood, Houston based artist, Elizabeth Roath Garcia, began revisiting her interest in creating and making. Choosing to work with cloth, collected from her mother, grandmothers and great grandmothers, Elizabeth explored the intimacy and familiarity of fabrics and textiles used in everyday life. By dyeing and sculpting individual pieces of fabrics, she removes these soft linens from a domestic and feminine realm relegated to the home and transitions them into objects with no function or purpose other than for beauty.