Tom Recker
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Audit
Hand dyed cotton yarns, sodium alginate yarn, handspun wool, hand carded wool
56” x 7”
Audit is a weave sampler that utilizes a myriad of different structures, materials and techniques. It was done intuitively in order to make a record of instinctual responses to the process of weaving.
Liturgy
Indigo, pomegranate, cutch, citric acid on cotton
45” x 60”
The mordant painting Liturgy is a reflection on heredity, maternity, maintenance, and continuation. I worked from a photo of my mother, her sister and their deceased parents, using a rendering process that mirrors the way parental fears and desires embed themselves like stains into the fabric of a family, regardless of intention, while honoring and memorializing the often matrilineal labor of maintenance that brings about these stains.
Tom Recker (any/all) is a queer multimedia artist from Omaha, Nebraska, who is currently studying fiber processes at the Kansas City Art Institute. Their obsession with the incongruent and contingent experience of embodiment, and Catholicism's troubled relation to it, has driven their work beyond their background in painting. Through sewn, sculpted, dyed, synthesized, and grown forms they seek to join in the perpetual investigation of the Truth, to dissolve the hierarchy of spirit and body, and to participate in the maintenance and continuation of the species.
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