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Kristin Reger • Rat King V • gouache, graphite & pencil on paper • 15" diameter • © kr. 2010

Kristin Reger • Rat King VI • gouache, graphite & pencil on paper • 15" diameter • © kr. 2010

Kristin Reger • Rat King VII • gouache, graphite & pencil on paper • 15" diameter • © kr. 2010

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Textile Textures:: Green Integral

This is a new, very detailed line drawing I've just completed titled "Green Integral"; I've started a Violet version as well. Medium is ink on gessoed paper. Size is 11" x 11". Small but seductive.

Macro detail: I used Le Pens, Staedtler Triplus Fineliners, third-rate gel ink pens from Staples, and Farb-Riese colored pencils (the new jam).


Zoom in: Truly, one would go at least cross-eyed, if not insane from having to sit still for this long. It required listening to the same Cut Copy and Lindstrøm tracks more times than I'm inclined to admit. Black coffee, Euro/Austro trash, art or bust.


Wallpaper view: If you unraveled all of the line and placed it end-to-end, it would cross Manhattan (or some other less-significant, smallish island) 7 times. [citation needed]

Visiting Artist:: School of the Art Institute Chicago

I visited the lovely Tommy Walton's fabulous accessory design class last week. Here are some of the samples I showed the students to get their brains going on using their own textiles:

This technique is Arashi Shibori on very porous, crisp organiza silk. The stripes are achieved by folding and wrapping the fabric around pvc piping and binding it down with twine of the desired thickness. I learned this from the incredible Akemi Cohn who teaches at Lill Street Art Center in Chicago.


This piece is more traditional tie dye on muslin. I used common household dye and metallic gouaches to achieve the variety in richness and opacity. This obviously wouldn't work for clothes, but is fine for mixed media work. The embellishment is hundreds of glass pearls, all hand sewn. The weight of the pearls on the light fabric drastically changes the drape- an interesting fact that can be manipulated to incorporate into an inventive garment's construction.


Looking goofy in SAIC's new digs: Tommy Walton, Chicago based designer and couturier (right). Kristin Reger, mixed media artist, currently residing in New York City (left)

Reger Talks Technique:: ATC 2008

Kristin Reger talks about her newest mixed media abstracts at the Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival. Selected as Curator's Choice, she irreverently discusses her textile/textural bent in recent installation work shown in Buenos Aires & Chicago. In English.

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S&B Show Images- Chashama Gallery (NYC)

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Check it out. This is from the Chashama Gallery show I did in February with Mr. Magical, Beautiful. Much more interesting artwork to see here

Showing 11/6 Gallery Nights PALERMO (BsAs)

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Press on Gallery Nights at Jardin Luminoso:: Uzumaki