KIVA MOTNYK

Kiva Motnyk is an artist and designer, based in New York, creating work with a focus on experimental textiles. She explores connections between art, industry and nature, through a process of discovery, conception and making. Kiva founded Thompson Street Studio in NYC, a space to create work that conceptualizes art and design as one discipline focused on creating the everyday object. Collaboration and process is an important part of her development, inspired by ideas of tradition. Her sensibility is rooted in a love of natural color, texture and pattern expressed in a modern application of traditional techniques: silk screening, weaving, knitting, quilting, and multiple natural dye methods.

Motnyk’s work has been included in recent exhibitions at R & Company, as part of Objects USA: 2020 and Object & Thing, At The Luss House.

 

LAKE STUDY NO. 3, 2024

Belgium linen, silk faille, antique printed and woven japanese linen, African mud cloth, open weave yarn dyed linen and plant dyed silks. Pieced with mixed topical embroidery and hand painted linen & silk

Cherry Wood Frame with Hand Waxing

51.5 H x 45.75 W x 3 D inches

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SHALE, 2023

Pieced Patchwork with Hand Quilting and Embroidery including: Antique Japanese Plaids, Silk Yarn Dyed Handwoven Stripes, Mixed Natural Dyed Silk, Antique Velvet, Yarn Dyed Belgian Linen, Variety of Silks, Antique African Mud Cloth, Antique African Sakiori Mat, Banana Fiber Woven Stipes, Naturally Dyed Cottons, Mixed Remnants, Mixed Transparencies

Baltic Birch Wood Frame with Hand Waxing

68 H x 49 W x 3 D inches

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LAKE STUDY NO. 2 “SHALLOWS”, 2022

66” H x 55” W

Plant dyed cottons, Belgium linen, silk faille, African mud cloth, open weave yarn dyed linen and linen. Pieced with mixed topical embroider. Baltic birch wood frame with hand wax finish

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LAKE STUDY NO. 1 “FERN”, 2022

85 in H x 65 in W

Belgium linen, silk faille, antique printed and woven Japanese linen, African mud cloth, open weave yarn dye linen and plant dyed silks, cottons and linen. Pieced with mixed topical embroidery. Solid oak wood frame with hand wax finish

Unique

SOLD