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Pauline Moll interviews McKnight Fiber Artist Fellow, Marjorie Fedyszyn on her new installation ‘Open Work’ on view at Textile Center through April 6, 2024.
Minneapolis based visual artist, Marjorie Fedyszyn (she/her), addresses the universal experiences of human vulnerability through her sculptural practice in textiles. Using traditional craft techniques such as paper making, hand stitching, and needlework, Fedyszyn’s abstract forms and installations emerge as emotional investigations encompassing ideas of control and loss. Her creative vocabulary is driven by careful attention to the inherent properties of materials within her process to address the realms of personal introspection and the human experience.
Fedyszyn is a 2023 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellow and a 2019 Jerome Visual Arts Fellow and has participated in residencies at Mass MoCA and Grand Marais Art Colony. Her work has been recognized by the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight/MRAC Next Step Fund with grants to sustain her artistic practice and community involvement. Fedyszyn’s art has been exhibited regionally and nationally, including The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta GA; The Morgan Conservatory of Paper, Cleveland, OH; DeVos Museum, Marquette, MI and South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings. She is an active educator in the Minnesota textile community and a founding member of the MN Felt Makers Guild and the artist collective, SD8.