Gallerist Heike Dressler
October 15, 2024 / 11:00 AM
Heike Dressler is 63 years old, lives in Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, is a tailor and an apparel engineer.
She has worked in the apparel industry and taught at the B5 fashion college in Nuremberg for more than 24 years.
Since 1994, she has been creating her first textile artwork, initially under the guidance and with the support of the American textile artist Nancy Crow.
Colors and shapes
In 1996 she joined the farbSTOFF women (Heide Stoll-Weber, Christine and Ingrid Stoll) and developed a series of ready-made patterns for the farbSTOFFstudio under the label Perfect-Patch.
In her new works, she uses the fabrics of the farbSTOFFstudio, supplemented by her own, self-printed fabrics, to create vibrant colors overlapping with shapes. Contrasts and transparency effects are developed, with a variety of visual details. Her focus is on inlays with overlapping.
Intuitive design language
As an apparel engineer, the practical implementation from concept to the finished work is also a challenge for her technical expertise.
The shapes she uses are based on the two-dimensional cut shapes that are needed to encase the female body in three dimensions.
Depending on the perspective, curves change and have to be balanced or rebuilt. Basic lines become clearer and more distinct through repetition, burn themselves into her “harddrive” and thus in turn, influence her intuitive design language.