Cayce zavaglia biography channel

          Cayce Zavaglia, MFA98, reflected on her career and time at WashU as a recipient of one of the Sam Fox School's Awards for Distinction.

        1. Cayce Zavaglia, MFA98, reflected on her career and time at WashU as a recipient of one of the Sam Fox School's Awards for Distinction.
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        3. Uncommon Thread: Ruth Miller Embroidery.
        4. Yatzer sat down with Cayce Zavaglia, an American born painter raised in Sydney, to discuss her work, influence and perspective on her paintings.
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          6. Uncommon Thread: Ruth Miller Embroidery..

          Painting with Thread: Cayce Zavaglia

          I was originally trained as a painter, but switched to embroidery 12 years ago in an attempt to establish a non-toxic studio and create a body of work that referenced an embroidered piece I had made as a child growing up in Australia.

          My work focuses exclusively on the portraits of friends, family, and fellow artists. The gaze of the portrait toward the viewer has remained constant over the years and in my work…as has my search for a narrative based on both faces and facture.

          Cayce Zavaglia's portraits offer a compelling, literally two-sided representation of what it means to be human.

          The work is all hand sewn using cotton and silk thread or crewel embroidery wool. From a distance they read as hyper-realistic paintings, and only after closer inspection does the work’s true construction reveal itself.

          Over the years, I have developed a sewing technique that allows me to blend colors and establish tonalities that resemble the techniques used in classical oil painting.

          The direction in which the threads are sewn mimic the way brush marks are layer