Carlyn Yandle
Circular Thinking, 2024
Acrylic, embroidery floss on stretcher 24" x 24"
A series of stitched acrylic paintings in a square format that evokes quilt blocks and contests boundaries between hand-stitching and geometrical painting
Carlyn Yandle
Cherry Bomb, 2024
Acrylic, embroidery floss on linen 24" x 24"
A topographical field reveals the course of a meandering journey in a stitching-painting hybrid (linen on stretcher).
Carlyn Yandle
Forage, 2025
Found hand-embroidered linens, embroidery floss 84" x 72"
A garden of sorts is built by digging into the common ground of old embroidered tablecloths, pillowcases, napkins and tea towels. Each "plot" — or improvised log-cabin quilt block — is joined into a grid, with the found embroidered motifs connected visually through additional hand-stitching.
Carlyn Yandle
Hearth, 2019-ongoing
Found fabrics Variable and growing
"Hearth" creates heat through through the coming-together of people, materials, easy rote hand-stitching and exhibition.
Carlyn Yandle
Resurge, 2020
Found denim jeans Variable, 96”OD x 6”H
'Resurge' binds together two key aspects: gathering and rote hand-making. This fuzzy menace raises issues of flood, overconsumption, and working conditions from the ground up.
Carlyn Yandle
Scaffolds, 2020
Found Tyvek spun polyester building wrap, construction-site detritus, rebar 120"W x 120"H x 8"D
What first appears as a frilly white textile barely conceals the chaotic armature of conduit casing, hazard tape, metal pipes, and other construction-site debris behind layers of discarded Tyvek building wrap, all donated by residential-tower construction workers
