Granada, Spain-based artist Brenda Risquez uses her friend and pop culture icons as models to create expressive embroidered portraits full of colored lines, stitches, and geometric and organic forms.
Brenda Risquez is deliberate in her use of texture, density, and color in her boldly embroidered portraits inspired by friends and pop culture icons. Varying patches of long, single-stitch rows and rounded tufts map onto the subjects’ faces, many of which display the textile artist’s affinity for pronounced, single-hued cheeks. Her hoop-bound portraits are expressive and dotted with playful elements, like a jaw outlined in pink or highlights stitched in bright, geometric shapes.
Grace Ebert
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