Wednesday, August 12, 2009
"immanent blue" from seed to art
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Erika Myers-Bromwell Director of New Harmony Gallery of Comtemporary Art 812/682-3156 Ricketts works exclusively with indigo dyes and dyed textiles. Using a process he learned while studying in Japan, he grows and cultivates his own indigo plants starting from seeds, ferments the leaves to create a pigment, and mixes it with ash and limestone and further ferments it to create a dye. Using centuries-old dyeing techniques, he transfers the plant's color to yarn and weaves it into cloth. He apprenticed at two indigo dyeing farms in Tokushima, Japan, from 1996 to 1998 and then opened Ricketts Indigo Farming and Dying in Shimane, Japan from 2000 to 2003. Ricketts holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies in 1993 from Wesleyan University, Connecticut and a Master of Fine Arts degree in fibers from Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Tennessee. He is currently an assistant professor at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Art at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has exhibited at the Malvern Artists Society in Malvern, Australia Dunedin Fine Arts Center in Florida The Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Snyderman-Works Gallery in New York Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City in Tampa and Gallery Gen in New York. The exhibition was made possible through the support of the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana Arts Commission. |
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