Corina Aszerman - Textile Artist

Region: Toronto, Ontario

Since 2002, I have refined my passion for making wearable textiles, playing with patterns, colour and texture in the fabric. My textile work is in the Arashi Shibori tradition, an ancient Japanese art form that consists of resist dyeing techniques through elaborate tying of the fabric on tubes. This involves an extremely sophisticated and carefully controlled way of creating patterns that is considered and deliberate. Since every piece is done by hand, every scarf or shawl is a unique creation. I strive to achieve colors that have an iridescent quality, achieved by the multiplicity of colors that include one color on the tops of the pleats and another in the valleys, so that as the piece moves, when worn, the visible color changes and shimmers. My work with Arashi shibori pleating can be on single layers of silk, or multiple layers. The silk may be folded before pleating, or it may be pleated twice. This changes the cloth from a two-dimensional form to a three-dimensional form. Each stage requires considerable skill, patience, and ingenuity – as well as large quantities of silk. As a result, my scarves are very sculptural, and reference the many colours and textures in nature.

Bird scarves, opera shawls, regular shawls, wraps, boas, ribbons, pins

2010 When Thirteen Moons Entwine, Le Centre Moon Rain Centre, Outaouais, Quebec
2010 One of A Kind Christmas Show and Sale, Toronto, Ontario
2008-2009 Toronto Women’s Bookstore, Toronto, Ontario
2004, 2006, 2009 Private home shows, various locations, Toronto, Ontario

Halliburton School of the Arts, 2000-2003
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969

Teaching and Lectures:

2010 Shibori workshop for beginners, Le Centre Moon Rain Centre, Outaouis, Quebec
2010 Shibori workshop for advance, Le Centre Moon Rain Centre, Outaouais, Quebec