Fables in Form and Fiber features contemporary fiber works and painted ceramic platters by Troy Dugas. The fiber pieces incorporate hooked fabric, punched yarn, embroidery, found objects, rope, and fringe, while the ceramic platters represent painterly variations of the sinewy tapestries. They feature motifs and imagery rooted in the history of textiles and indigenous folk art and evoke a precarious balance between strength and vulnerability. The combination of these sources reveals a powerful tension between innocence, beautiful nativity and our relationship with nature, mortality, and the ethereal. Through a meditative and labor-intensive process, Dugas’ work becomes a place of self-discovery. The resulting imagery creates narratives that express his adoration and feelings of connectedness to visual representations, cultures, and techniques he references.
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Troy Dugas creates intricate, large-scale cut paper assemblages from his extensive collection of unused product labels. This material is cut or shredded to produce artwork that appears woven. Repetition, pattern, symmetry, precision, and scale are used to distract from the label’s original purpose. The essential elements of color, shape, and line are utilized in a new way, and the altered context of the source material provides new meaning. The immediacy of the graphic label is transformed into aesthetic sensation and contemplation. Void of any specific religion, the work reflects the spirit of a scavenger creating his own myths. Troy received his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1997 and currently lives and works in south Louisiana. He has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Louisiana Division of the Arts and his work is in the collections of the Frederick Weisman Foundation and the West Collection.
Troy is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New..
