I am a self-taught, experimental fiber and mixed media artist based in Denver, Colorado.
I was first handed a hook and skein at age eight to occupy anxious, destructive hands, and found escape from a difficult childhood in working with yarn. Over the course of several decades and an eclectic collection of careers, the yarn kept me from disappearing completely into depression and anxiety, but I found the realm of traditional craft limiting.
In 2022, I began creating textile art that conveys surreal and macabre motifs in dreamy landscapes, playing with texture, detail, and vivid color. Inspired by surrealism, absurdism, and magic realism, I love to develop new and unexpected mixed-textile and mixed-media techniques to serve the deeply personal themes of my work — trauma and recovery, queerness, existentialism, and environmentalism, but above all the joy of being alive and able to play with yarn and with art in this moment.
Although many of my pieces are mounted on standard-sized canvases, as I continue to push the limits of detailed and precise yarn work I find myself drawn to create more works that escape the canvas in size and form. Soft sculptures, such as the two-headed snake of “Reparenting” (2024), allow me to bring a third dimension to deeply personal explorations of parenthood and personhood. My newer works also explore the cohesive incorporation of paint and other more traditional media into fiber pieces, such as “Before the Scar” (2025), which evokes an active wildfire represented by hand-knit fabric which I singed and blended into an acrylic-painted background, and “I Came Upon the Queerest Tree,” a life-sized knit and mixed-media tree. The limits of textile art, I am delighted to discover, seem not to exist at all.
BIO
I'm Antoinette, and I speak yarn
