Quynn Douglas Dale

Born in East Longmeadow, MA / Works in St. Louis, MO

BIO

Quynn Douglas Dale was born in Springfield, MA and received their BA from Grinnell College with time at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. Their work has been exhibited with Fiber Art Now, The American Craft Council, PBS, NPR, The Sebastopol Center for the Arts California, The Galesburg Civic Art Center, North Dakota Museum of Art, 21c Museum Hotel, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Duane Reed Gallery and the World Trade Center in Manhattan. They currently work in St. Louis, MO.

I seek elasticity in existing structures, constructing objects incorporating contrasting binaries, resisting individual categorization, encapsulating the full spectrum between hard and soft, wood and fiber, and masculine and feminine. My current work consists of building “second skins:” contouring yarn line by line to resemble wood grain, obscuring and tracing an existing structure such as furniture or animal decoys. I draw inspiration from camp, drag, theater, and the club scene: spaces whose reality is the product of illusion.