© Owen Premore
Crochet 15 (“Tribesman 1 (Bear’s Head)”) 2007
*private collection
Crochet 18, 2007
Crochet 17, 2007
*private collection
Crochet 14, 2007
Crochet 12, 2007
Crochet 6 (“Yuck Yuck”), 2007
Crochet 9, 2007
Crochet 11 (Verigated Green Abstract), 2007
Crochet 7 (“Birthday”), 2007
*private collection
Crochet 2 (“Brain Tuner”), 2007
*private collection
Crochet 3, Crochet 4, and Crochet 5, 2007
*private collections
Crochet 19 (“Treehouse”), 2008
Crochet 22, 2008
Crochet 23, 2008
Crochet 24, 2008
Crochet 13 (“Organ Ick”), 2007-2008
Crochet 25 (“Nuclear Explosion”), 2008
Crochet 28 (“Ghost from ‘s-Hertogenbosch 1”), 2009
Crochet 8 (“Balloon Dog”), 2007-2008
*private collection
Crochet 20 (“Tribesman 2 (Goat’s Head)”), 2008
*private collection
Crochet 27 (“Tribesman 2 (Chilly Down)”), 2009
*private collection
Crochet 41, 2009
Crochet 47 (Bockie, the Recuse Chicken), 2009
*private collection
Crochet 50 (after a Pre-Columbian Jaguar-Man Vessel), 2010
*private collection
After a 20 year hiatus from crochet, a chance encounter with a crochet hook and yarn started this body of work. My Grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was very young. During the spring of 2007, I had the daunting (and tragic) task of figuring out what to do with the large sculptures I had produced during graduate school. Crochet was a great way for me to satisfy my insatiable hunger for making objects and have a finished piece of manageable size. Crochet also allows me to explore narrative and characters, a long held fascination. Crochet is a much faster process for me than my sculptural practices and the numbering of the pieces came from a self-analytic urge to keep track of my changing interests, life influences, and development of skill (working names or names given to the piece by the current owners are presented in brackets).
Crochet 55 (Giraffie), 2010
*private collection