Textile artist and designer Heather Ujiie incorporates many techniques--including hand painting, drawing, stitching, and printing with innovative large-format digital printing technology--to create immersive Utopian that she describes as " a celebration of the unconscious."  

 As a complete sensorial environment, the installation, both in content and process, will reflect her interests in biodiversity and the future of our environs. This is accomplished through the creation of a three dimensional fantastical landscape of hybrid animals and plant forms influenced by early botanical and anatomical illustrations from Renaissance and Baroque iconography, and by artists such as Piero Fornasetti and Jean Cocteau. This immersive experience consists of digitally created textile panels and mosiacs, upholstered furnishings, as well as one-of-a-kind garments. 

 

Heavily influenced by Victorian decorative motifs found in the home, Lauren Dombrowiak creates entire environments out of household objects such as dinnerware, mirrors and wood furnishings. Precariously balanced, the fragility of these sculptures-formed by combinations of items that were once functional-is rendered even more artificially decorative and ornamental in nature.

 

For An Edifice Spectrum, Dombrowiak presents two interrelated projects. The first project will consist of several large-scale sculptural towers of sourced porcelain dinnerware combined with oversized, hand cut wall stencils based on Victorian paisley motifs. As a counterpoint to this artificiality constructed landscape, Dombrowiak will create a more ethereal experience in a second gallery using much materials found in nature, lit from the interior, and paired with home decor and accessories.