Richard McVetis

I'm interested in how process, specifically stitch, can reveal a world seen from within and from a scale that can tell us much more about ourselves, about our own trajectories in space and the transitory relationship to the world we build around us.

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Artist Statement

McVetis’ practice is deeply rooted in process, and intrinsic to this is hand embroidery. He records time and space through multiple dots, lines, and crosses. These meticulously rendered stitches reflect a preoccupation with the repetitive nature of process. McVetis explores the subtle differences that emerge through ritualistic and habitual making. These inscribed stitches mark the hand’s rhythms, a delicate performance of obsessive intricacy, refinement, and gesture. They record human presence, time and decay, each stitch or line acting as a marker for lived time, an embodiment of thought and patience. These physical, tactile, and repetitive modes of creation allow him the time to see and think, to occupy a space. McVetis believes in the power and potential of materials to reveal and understand our intrinsic relationship to nature and our place in it.