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Monochromica Issue 008
YELLOW: the problematic color
“Yellow has always occupied an unstable position in painting. It is the color that arrives first and ages fastest. Medieval altarpieces used gold leaf to signal permanence and divine order, yet the development of yellow pigments tells a far messier story. Orpiment was toxic. Gamboge faded. Chrome yellow darkened. The history of yellow in art is partly a history of artists negotiating with chemistry, and accepting that brilliance often comes with fragility…”
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Oregon ArtsWatch | Arts & Culture News
Kristie Strasen: A world not of this world
“Kristie Strasen is a renowned colorist and textile designer, with numerous awards under her belt, and, more importantly, decades of experience in creating pattern and color schemes for high-end textiles where execution matches her original visualization. In the decade or so since she relocated from New York City to the Columbia Gorge, she has infused her creativity, her skill set(s) and her curiosity about the history of her new home into ever more ambitious projects at the loom…”
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Gorge Magazine | Spring 2020
Kristie Strasen: A love of color informs a long career in textile design
“The course of Kristie Strasen's life changed in an unlikely place for a girl from Puget Sound: the west coast of Ireland. She was there doing research for her master's thesis on folklore, studying the folk-lore traditions of people who live on islands off the coast of bigger islands.
But as she traveled the narrow roads and villages of coastal Ireland, she found herself increasingly captivated by another tradition: the thriving cottage industry of textiles. The wood-on-wood clacking of handlooms became a familiar sound, steaming vats of dye and drying skeins of hand-spun yarn familiar sights. "I would see someone sitting outside on their porch spinning in this hopelessly beautiful setting," Strasen said. "I fell in love." She traveled up the coast of Ireland and on to Scotland, studying textile techniques along the way…”
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