Carolyn Lee Vehslage
Carolyn Lee Vehslage
Carolyn Lee Vehslage grew up in Rye, NY sailing on Long Island Sound. She now lives in South Jersey and sails off of Long Beach Island. Some of her artwork has been made aboard her sailboat as she cruises the northeast. She is a fiber artist, choosing to use cloth as her canvas, acrylics as her paint, and stitches to give her compositions extra texture. Her work is in the permanent collections of Musee ArtColle, Sergines, France, Museo de Collage, Morelos, Mexico, Sharjah Art Musuem, Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, Museo de la Cultura, Valencia, Venezuela, and the San Jose Musuem of Quilts and Textiles , San Jose, California.
Artist Statement
In the Archaeology Series the viewer has to look carefully between the layers and the obscuring of the quilting to discern what the images are. The imagery is diverse and layered as life experiences are laid one upon another. As the images are built up on the cloth, changes occur to how the shapes relate to one another. A single image that may represent a moment in time is mutated by the images that are layered upon it.
The Computer Collages are about our emotional relationships with technology. The "System Overload" series is about mania where everything seems super charged and interconnected, pushing toward the brink of an explosion. It's full of bright lights and whizzing speed. The colors are alive: reds, greens, oranges, and yellows. Metallic threads of copper,gold,and silver sparkle. The "Fried Circuits" series represents depression. The edges have been burned . The fire within has been blanketed in blacks and browns. There are holes in the memory. Patterns and numbers no longer make sense. It stirs up dark thoughts of disconnection, confusion, loss, and isolation.