Abby Fenn, Quilt Pattern: White Dots
Abby Fenn
Quilt Pattern: White Dots
Flashe, oil pastel, colored pencil, graphite, and paper mache clay on wood
20" x 16"
Website:
Instagram: @afenn_art
About | Originally from Rochester, NY, Abby Fenn is a visual artist currently living and working in Boston, MA. She graduated from Boston University in 2021 with a BFA in Painting and Graphic design. Since graduating, Fenn has been working as a research and studio assistant for artists Lucy Kim and Yu-Wen Wu while continuing to grow her own material and process based studio practice. She was recently included in Cambridge Art Association’s “Emerging Artist Exhibit” where she received the Emerging Artist Award for her piece Megan’s Pins: Dekalb Corn. Abby was also recently awarded a scholarship to a woodworking workshop at Anderson Ranch where she learned how to carve wood using hand tools, a skill she plans to incorporate into many future artworks.
Fenn’s work arises from the textiles, patterns, and photographs that she grew up with and around. A quilt made by a grandmother, a crossword completed by a grandfather, pins collected by a sister: all are meaningful frameworks that she built through the process of making. Focusing on the nuances of these and other collected items, her experimental studio practice centers around materiality, memory, and play. Throughout the process, memories become the material. The associations Fenn has with specific objects and patterns help her decide how to transform materials, allowing her to be more inventive with her medium selection. Fenn reminisces as she works – each substance, process, or subject echoing a moment, person, or feeling from childhood. As a result, the works become indirect collaborations with family members and a past self. They allow her to reflect as she searches through archives for something missed.
$800
Abby Fenn
Quilt Pattern: White Dots
Flashe, oil pastel, colored pencil, graphite, and paper mache clay on wood
20" x 16"
Website:
Instagram: @afenn_art
About | Originally from Rochester, NY, Abby Fenn is a visual artist currently living and working in Boston, MA. She graduated from Boston University in 2021 with a BFA in Painting and Graphic design. Since graduating, Fenn has been working as a research and studio assistant for artists Lucy Kim and Yu-Wen Wu while continuing to grow her own material and process based studio practice. She was recently included in Cambridge Art Association’s “Emerging Artist Exhibit” where she received the Emerging Artist Award for her piece Megan’s Pins: Dekalb Corn. Abby was also recently awarded a scholarship to a woodworking workshop at Anderson Ranch where she learned how to carve wood using hand tools, a skill she plans to incorporate into many future artworks.
Fenn’s work arises from the textiles, patterns, and photographs that she grew up with and around. A quilt made by a grandmother, a crossword completed by a grandfather, pins collected by a sister: all are meaningful frameworks that she built through the process of making. Focusing on the nuances of these and other collected items, her experimental studio practice centers around materiality, memory, and play. Throughout the process, memories become the material. The associations Fenn has with specific objects and patterns help her decide how to transform materials, allowing her to be more inventive with her medium selection. Fenn reminisces as she works – each substance, process, or subject echoing a moment, person, or feeling from childhood. As a result, the works become indirect collaborations with family members and a past self. They allow her to reflect as she searches through archives for something missed.
$800