About Taryn:

Taryn Singleton is an artist, designer, and educator. Taryn has a Bachelors in Studio Art and a Minor in Women and Gender Studies from the College of Charleston and an MFA in Painting with a minor emphasis in Printmaking from the University of Tulsa. She lives in North Eastern Oklahoma and exhibits regionally. She works in a variety of mediums to make fine art and functional art objects. She founded Artist Made Patterns in 2019 to merge her love of fine art with her love of sewing and functional craft.

About Artist Made Patterns:

Each sewing pattern comes with templates and instructions for constructing your own unique, hand made and painted or printed garment. The stencils are versatile and may be used on other patterns and projects as well to work towards having a whole creatively crafted wardrobe. Each pattern goes up to a 5X in sizing so that it is considerate of a wide range of bodies. Second hand fabrics are used first and environmentally friendly materials are used when second hand fabrics are not available.

Artists Statement:

Taryn Singleton is interested in the persistence of power dynamics / imbalances and systemic inequality. She explores these concepts through the use of formal elements and implied narrative by creating invented landscape spaces in print, paint, and fiber. She then navigates through the spaces using observation, abstraction, line, shape, pattern, color and the cultivation of accidents. Working non-objectively, one decision informs another and the sum of her choices slowly warps the whole as characters move in and out from their surroundings and one another. In this way the world outside herself slowly merges with the world within and she seeks to understand it all through the process of making.