Tina Vincent
Charlotte, NC
First-time WINTER SHOW exhibitor Tina Gwata Vincent combines machine quilting, collage and painting in powerful and joyous depictions of friends and family. Vincent describes the process for her mixed media works:
“I am constantly experimenting with materials and have been quilting for a few years and wanted to find a way to incorporate fabric into my artwork.”
Vincent’s creative process includes taking numerous photographs:
“I love taking photos and experimenting with different compositions, and a lot of my pieces are inspired by photos I have taken. I love my art to show beauty in overlooked people or situations."
In Young Boy, a patchwork of bright fabrics in primary colors radiates around the subject’s head and connects to the dapper patterned shirt with a patch pocket the boy is wearing. Painted oval shapes of a white hat, a smiling open mouth, and aviator glasses provide contrast to the angular quilting. The entire composition is activated by a dynamic centered on the notion of seeing and being seen, as the cityscapes reflected in the young man’s lenses draw us in yet reveal what would logically be behind us.
A similar situational reversal is employed by the artist in her intimate portrait of a father and son. Here the viewer observes the scene from the other side of a computer screen. Blue light illuminates the parent multitasking with his child whose small hands imitate his father’s on the keyboard.
Tina Vincent in her Charlotte, NC studio