Claire B. Jones. Whole Surface: Confined 1, 2013. sewing machine, free-motion embroidery: canvas, acrylic paint, thread, Overall: 24.1 x 19.1 x 14 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). Gift of The Textile Art Alliance, 2015.40. Copyrighted.

Whole Surface: Confined 1

2013

Claire B. Jones

Claire B. Jones (British, b. 1964)

Textiles

Whole Surface: Confined 1, 2013. Claire B. Jones (British, b. 1964). Sewing machine, free-motion embroidery: canvas, acrylic paint, thread; overall: 24.1 x 19.1 x 14 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 2015.40 Whole Surface: Confined 1 is part of a series of abstract sculptural forms, each with at least one hole, in which the artist uses machine stitch free-motion embroidery. The forms are influenced by topology, an area of mathematics concerned with the properties of surfaces that are deformed through twisting and stretching. Artist Claire Jones was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to the USA to pursue a career as a software engineer.

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Maker/Artist: Claire B. Jones
Classification: Textile
Formatted Medium: sewing machine, free-motion embroidery: canvas, acrylic paint, thread
Medium: sewing, machine, free-motion, embroidery, canvas, acrylic, paint, thread
Dimensions: Overall: 24.1 x 19.1 x 14 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Departments: Textiles
Accession Number: 2015.40
Credit Line: Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
Exhibitions: FOCUS Fiber: 2014, TAA juried exhibition. Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (September 26, 2014-January 18, 2015).
Rights Statement: Copyrighted