In the Studio: Suzanne Tick

Suzanne in the Open Studios at MAD

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Shortly after we shot this video, Suzanne spent a day our Open Studios, where she had ample opportunity to gauge peoples' reaction to her work. Check out the link to this photo set.

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suzanne's website
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Suzanne has been doing textile and product design for a long time, and her website is absolutely full of materials inspired by the textures of weaving.

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fire safety
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The question of functional object or art is one that comes up a lot for Suzanne. New York City fire code prohibits the use of certain (flammable) materials as structural or decorative elements in buildings. So, Suzanne couldn't mass-produce and sell the pieces she is working on here as wallcoverings or decorative screens, but she can design a safer piece in textile that is inspired by these textures.

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close-up
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What you're looking at are straight metal rods cut from hangers, cardboard tubes from hangers, the tissue paper that sometimes comes with dry cleaning, and then plastic garment bags. The only things not from the dry cleaner are the black warp threads which hold everything together.

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the mac in the background
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Suzanne is working on a loom that is functionally the same as looms made over the last few hundred years. The one consent to modern-times? She has an electronic row counter that keeps track of when she should engage which warp threads to change the pattern. It's run by that Mac over her shoulder connected to a unit bolted onto her loom (the device in the photo), and it also makes that ticking noise that you can hear in the background.

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Suzanne's products
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Suzanne oversees much of the fabric design for Knoll Textiles - this link takes you to the page for Earthwork. Although there is some degree of abstraction that occurs when her handmade, very dimensional fabric is translated into a product made in quantity on huge jacquard looms, you can definitely see the relationship between the two. Suzanne oversees and approves the industrial production of her products, too, so she is aware of how that translation will affect the finished product.

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Suzanne in the Open Studios at MAD
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Shortly after we shot this video, Suzanne spent a day our Open Studios, where she had ample opportunity to gauge peoples' reaction to her work. Check out the link to this photo set.

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Suzanne Tick is a weaver and textile designer whose work often makes use of unexpected materials. In this case, her material of choice comes from the dry cleaner: hangers, tissue paper, and plastic bags. By weaving these materials together, Suzanne creates a tapestry that has a rich and compelling texture and pattern, and whose component parts are almost unrecognizable.

In this video, Suzanne explains how her art-making is an integral part of her work in industrial textile design as her dry cleaning wall hangings are translated into a more conventional woven fabric.

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