R. Mertens
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2021-Current
Never-Ending Thread
SAAC Residency 2024
Embracing Entropy
Preservation Figures
Exhibition: In Conversation
Workhouse Arts Center: VMFA Futures 2023
Exhibition at Burren College of Art 2023
FAF 2023
Art-In-Place Exhibition
Trawick Prize Exhibition
2021 Exhibition at Mary Baldwin University Hunt Gallery
2015-2020
Staunton Augusta Art Center: 40 Years of Excellence 2020
Solivagance
Between Historicity and History of the Limestone Vernacular
Broken Conduit Theory and Parasitic Sounds
Unreconcilable Fascinations
Recollecting Time
Traces and Detritus: Visual Echos/ various JMU Exhibitions
Textiles in the Expanded Field
Exhibition in Motion/The Silence of Looping
The Paradoxical Acousmetre At the Arlington Art Center
Reminscions, Mediations and Premonitions
Mad Theory 2: A Performance Philosophy Symposium
Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge
Nothing from Something At Truman State University; Kirksville, MO
Before 2015
Encryption Cloth
Masks and Masking
Lectric Schematics
A Tale of Conductance
BAM 2012 Biennial High Fiber Art
Post-Apocalyptic Sacra
Video Documentation
The Weaving Room Recordings
CV
Instagram
Textile Design Shop
Artwork Shop
Contact
R. Mertens
Home
Bio
Art
2021-Current
Never-Ending Thread
SAAC Residency 2024
Embracing Entropy
Preservation Figures
Exhibition: In Conversation
Workhouse Arts Center: VMFA Futures 2023
Exhibition at Burren College of Art 2023
FAF 2023
Art-In-Place Exhibition
Trawick Prize Exhibition
2021 Exhibition at Mary Baldwin University Hunt Gallery
2015-2020
Staunton Augusta Art Center: 40 Years of Excellence 2020
Solivagance
Between Historicity and History of the Limestone Vernacular
Broken Conduit Theory and Parasitic Sounds
Unreconcilable Fascinations
Recollecting Time
Traces and Detritus: Visual Echos/ various JMU Exhibitions
Textiles in the Expanded Field
Exhibition in Motion/The Silence of Looping
The Paradoxical Acousmetre At the Arlington Art Center
Reminscions, Mediations and Premonitions
Mad Theory 2: A Performance Philosophy Symposium
Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge
Nothing from Something At Truman State University; Kirksville, MO
Before 2015
Encryption Cloth
Masks and Masking
Lectric Schematics
A Tale of Conductance
BAM 2012 Biennial High Fiber Art
Post-Apocalyptic Sacra
Video Documentation
The Weaving Room Recordings
CV
Instagram
Textile Design Shop
Artwork Shop
Contact
2015-2020
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Textiles in the Expanded Field
Installation View
2016
Installation View
2016
Installation Detail
2016
Three Studies of Loss
Digital Jacquard woven cotton, Digital Embroidery on leather, Textie Dye Print, Pattern developed from x-rays, ultrasounds and Mastectomy scar cover-up tattoos
18” x 26” x 2“
2016
Installation Detail
2016
Preparation Marks
Textile ink print, textile dye print, appliqué, Digital Embroidery, Pattern Developed from Mastectomy scars, bruises and X-rays
2016
Preparation Marks Detail
2017