Elaine Reichek
1943–

Introduction

Elaine Reichek (born 1943) is a New York-based visual artist. Much of her work concerns the history of the embroidered sampler. Through her pieces of hand and machine embroidery and digital sewing machine, she addresses issues such as the craft/art and the old/new divide, the nature of women's work, and the interplay of text and image. The connection between the pixel and the stitch, as differently gendered types of mark-making, is a continuing theme in her work.

Wikidata identifier

Q19665343

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Roles

Artist, photographer, textile artist

ULAN identifier

500090182

Names

Elaine Reichek

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