Ally Kraus
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Hi, I’m Ally! I’m a visual artist, craftsperson, maker, and citizen scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
My primary medium is fiber. I weave on hand looms, piece and sew cloth, dye fabric and yarn, and grow my own dye plants. I want to learn everything about everything and acquire all skills – goals which I will happily never achieve.
I create textile compositions, often using tools and materials that I design, fabricate, or reimagine. I’m inspired by contrasts and contradictions. Finding structure and then deconstructing it. Taking something familiar and making it unfamiliar. Fulfilling the spirit of the assignment without following it to the letter. Work that is meticulously serendipitous or precisely imprecise. I use these contrasts to illuminate the ubiquitous materials that surround us: to uncover their story, communicate their form, and extract their essence.
There’s magic in repetition. I approach my work like an experiment, iterating on the same thing over and over again. I make something, take it apart, and put it back together again in a different way. I document my findings and, in turn, that documentation often becomes art.
My dream is to open my own textile school, but for now, you can catch me at pop-up sites across the Bay Area.
