STATEMENT OF WORK

Megan Stroech utilizes printed and painted fabric, paper cut outs and collaged found materials to create works that abstractly reference spaces and objects that explore dichotomies between realness and artificiality, image and object, and common vs. luxury. Decorative prints of fruits, florals and faux surfaces interact with paint and large swaths of felt along with other craft materials, creating arrangements that at once seem familiar and foreign to the viewer. Stroech’s work moves across multiple disciplines, employing lithography, monoprint and screen-printing techniques alongside painting, collage, and sewing. Forms in the work reference a wide range of source material pulled from Stroech’s day-to-day life: discarded domestic objects on the sidewalk, store displays, elements from vintage home interior books, and curious findings from going down an eBay rabbit hole. Ginghams, plaids, and veins of marble are applied on felt, canvas, and paper recalling patterns from domestic upholstery, surfaces and objects. Stroech’s work pulls these snippets of domestic life together to examine the ways in which we assign meaning and value to these objects, thinking about overarching themes of nostalgia, kitsch, presentation, and performance, Stroech’s work playfully investigates larger systems of patriarchy, consumerism and class.