© Teresa Shields, In-progress photo for the making of What Fresh New Hell is This? Installation, 2023
November 29, 2023
Amie Potsic interviews Teresa Shields about her award winning felt installations and current exhibitions.
Teresa Shields has always been drawn to fabric, thread, wool fiber, magnets and wood. Through embroidery she interprets abstract shapes found in the natural forms of sliced fruits and vegetables. In 2016 she began wet felting and now enjoys exploring the materiality of turning wool fibers into solid but soft hollow forms.
Her work is often idiosyncratic and leaves the viewer craving a tactile experience. Teresa exhibits her work throughout the United States and has won a handful of nice awards. She earned her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University and MFA at Mass College of Art. She is an empty nester living and working in Jenkintown, just outside Philadelphia, with her retired husband and two cats.
WET FELTED 3-D HOLLOW FORMS
© Teresa Shields, detail of What Fresh New Hell is This? Installation, 2023
© Teresa Shields, What Fresh New Hell is This? Installation, 2023
© Teresa Shields, My Joy, 2021, Wool magnets, wood, 10 x 14 x 8 inches
© Teresa Shields, Seedbed, 2020, Wet felted hollow pod forms with magnets, walnut, 48 x 6 x 8 inches
© Teresa Shields, detail of Seedbed, 2020, Wet felted hollow pod forms with magnets, walnut, 48 x 6 x 8 inches
A SLICE OF NATURE
© Teresa Shields, Tomato No. 1, 2020, French knots and stitches on linen mounted on wood panel. Tomatoes are a source to see sacred geometry in a natural form, 4 x 4 x 1.5 inches
© Teresa Shields, Interior Fig, 2015, French knots on wool felt, 6 x 6 x 1.5 inches
© Teresa Shields, Tomato No. 4, 2020, French knots and stitches on linen mounted on wood panel. Tomatoes are a source to see sacred geometry in a natural form, 5 x 5 x 1.5 inches
© Teresa Shields, Red Pepper, 2015, French knots on wool felt, 6 x 6 x 1.5 inches
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Banner Image: © Artist Teresa Shields with What Fresh New Hell is This? Installation, 2023