From the Artist's Statement: Becki Banet's alchemical work infuses timeless tools of imagination and fire in the organic qualities of copper textile. This chameleon shape-shifter spreads iridescence along a color continuum, literally spilling beyond conventional expression. Equally at home creating the high drama or quietly echoing in a support role, the architectural sculptures capture shadow and light to translate space into place.
Using underling healing properties of copper as a primary …
From the Artist's Statement: Becki Banet's alchemical work infuses timeless tools of imagination and fire in the organic qualities of copper textile. This chameleon shape-shifter spreads iridescence along a color continuum, literally spilling beyond conventional expression. Equally at home creating the high drama or quietly echoing in a support role, the architectural sculptures capture shadow and light to translate space into place.
Using underling healing properties of copper as a primary mixed media ingredient, Banet layers in the wisdom from adjacent art forms that include origami, literism, batik, raku, encaustic, silk screen, etching, embossing, calligraphy, tailoring, weaving, relief print, burnishing, assemblage and quilting. The work borrows most lavishly from the universal forms of nature, melding the essence of inspiring light, expansive land and rare air into an expression that imprints the memory of this mystical, timeless place into the memory of the beholder.
Place is also a tool. Banet now lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. Her art form originated in Indianapolis. As an artist/gallery owner in the Historic Theatre/Arts District, her mixed media work became recognizable as a personalized storyteller, evolving into her specialty for individual commissions and public installations that now spread across six continents."
