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Wendy Yoder Holub

Wendy Yoder Holub has been working in many media during her career as a studio artist. She has worked as a printmaker, made sculptural work, produced jewelry and has worked with found objects, but her current circumstances have made that she is concentrating on work in fiber. The work she does now deals with the fragility of human excistence.  To express that she works on old fabrics, quite often velvets, silks and and organdies which she then dyes and resists, bleaches  to create a worn, fragile background. Yoder Holub  then layers the fabric and  "repairs" the torn parts,and transforms the fabric with decorative stitching giving it a new life. Her designs come to life in a intuitive manner, they grow organically. Although mostly abstract, at times the patterns have a resemblance of landscapes, or houses or some dreamlike flora.

She started this type of work on very dark velvets with bright stitching, and sometimes covered the surface with brightly colored glass beads and sequins. Her palette is changing over time and is currently moving towards a much paler one with beiges, taupes, coral and pale pinks with white. Her works is very much about process, a very contemplative act, the goal is no so much a framed finished pice of enbrodery, but the materizing of a state of mind and soul.