Awareness: Katharine Asher

Katharine Asher is a figurative artist, focusing on fashion and beauty. Asher utilizes mixed media to create her pieces, notably water color, ink wash, and pen. Her works always revolve around the depiction of a basic figure or portion of a figure. Her style is very loose and effortless, which is impressive considering how purposeful each mark is. The reason I was drawn to Asher's work was how she not only expertly uses the negative space of a piece but incorporates it, giving it a vital role in the finished product. The other reason I enjoyed these so much is that I've been working on my home project the past couple of weeks constructing a dress of recyclable materials.