Ally Petris X Go Tufting NYC

Retro vibe collage tufting June 2022

Retro vibe collage tufting

The tufted pieces featured in this fair are inspired by geometric and organic patterns of the 70s and 80s. Each one pulls iconic shapes and colors from their respective eras and reincorporates them into tufted collages.

Each piece is recognizable and at the same time refreshing by remixing these iconic eras of pattern design and illustration. The mirrors invite visitors to become part of the sculpture's artwork.

Ally Petris X Go Tufting NYC  

Ally Petris is a designer and artist based in Queens, NY. Currently, she is the instructor of GO TUFTING NYC studio. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Design in 2021. She values beautiful items as a storyteller and has worked in props and wardrobe styling for photoshoots, video shoots, and films. 

Her tufted work experiments with design and illustration as textiles, bringing vectorized shapes into the 3-dimensional world through tufting.

Producing process: 

Ally Petris’s work often intertwines digital and physical techniques, taking elements from the content she is consuming, often digital media, nature, fine art, or fashion, and channeling them into whichever creative technique she is learning at the moment, from paper-making to production design to textile design. 

In this process, she often pulls from memories and experiences in her own life to create work that evokes a sense of nostalgic playfulness. 

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Reflection | 镜像

Tinglan Huang X Go Tufting NYC May 2022

TT. Huang is a textile designer, installation artist, and a mix-media sculptor. She received her MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art; and her BFA in animation at LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, China. Now, she is in a nine months residency program in the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY. 

She focuses on considering the personality’s transformation invoked by social contradictions and changes in self-being. Also, she experiments with an archetype, which can reveal an individual's sub-consciousnesses. Using lines with various materials, like steel stick, wire, hemp rope and yarn, she creates the different structure of her being, from a spot to a line, then to a surface, finally a complex form.

TT’s tufting work is related to the reflection of society on the people. Mushroom is the main language in this series of works because she thinks mushrooms have their own different mini societies which is similar to human society. In her work, mushrooms are intuitively combined with human eyes, mouths, and so on. T. Huang sees her work as a storyline. From the individual to the collective, and finally to the whole society. She thinks of the mushroom as a plant of desire. As long as the mushroom's growth conditions are met, they will appear undetected. Mushrooms represent the infinitely expanding desires and judgments of contemporary society. T. Huang ranges from anxiety about self-appearance, to suspicion and lies in interactions, to social dilemmas and temptations. The work presents the stereotypes and hierarchy of contemporary society from multiple perspectives.

She focuses on considering the personality’s transformation invoked by social contradictions and changes in self-being. Also, she experiments with an archetype, which can reveal an individual's sub-consciousnesses. Using lines with various materials, like steel stick, wire, hemp rope and yarn, she creates the different structure of her being, from a spot to a line, then to a surface, and finally a complex form. Her previous work was large scale and expressed by intensive layout. Her recent fiber work series, The Fluidic Balance, explores the co-existence between the secularized world and the spiritual world. It is her first fiber work. Compared to the hard linear materials she used, the soft fiber material brings new forms of experiences, which is the feeling of crowded and intense from the weaving yarn, even on a small scale. The soft yarn fills every space. She wants to let these liner materials interlace together to reach and build the archetype she searches for.

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