Wolf-Gordon has expanded the Curated Collection of digitally-printed wallcovering, panel, and upholstery textiles, with the introduction of 13 new designs from six different artists. The styles in the collection reflect the diverse backgrounds and influences of the creatives: ASVP, Ghislaine Viñas, Kari Kristensen, Ryan Bradley, Audrey Stone, and Studioestudio. The collection highlights inspirations ranging from anime and street art to a bold, architectural abstract of a rural mountainscape.
The collection offers more choices for specifiers looking for products that are both unique and durable. “The WG Customs Lab can do anything. We work with our customers to modify size, scale, or color, whatever they are looking for. With this expanded collection, designers now have the opportunity to choose from some standard digital products that can enliven a range of interiors,” said Marybeth Shaw, chief creative officer, marketing and design, Wolf-Gordon.
Shaw recently talked about the artists, and highlighted some of her favorite patterns in the colorful collection.
ASVP
Established in 2009, ASVP is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Simon Grendene and Victor Anselmi. The duo has become internationally known for creating graphic images with nods to advertising, pop art, and comic book culture. Combining printmaking and painting, their works often consist of layers of organic abstraction. Many of their murals can be seen throughout New York City and other locales.
“ASVP does all kinds of public art murals in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and they also take private commissions. Their work is very inspired by cartoons, anime, superheroes, and graffiti, and they combine all of those influences in each of their compositions. Their style lends itself equally well to a simple, black-and-white tonal interpretation, as seen in Super Matter 6, or in the multicolored, chaotic assemblage, Super Matter 24,” Shaw said.
Ghislaine Viñas
Born in the Netherlands and raised in South Africa, Ghislaine Viñas leads her design firm with a visionary approach, gathering inspiration from the everyday and turning it into the extraordinary. The firm has produced products for residential, hospitality, and commercial interiors, designing furniture, textiles, wallpaper, and lighting. For Wolf-Gordon, Viñas recently created the Repeat Offenders collection, three contract wallcovering patterns that are reinventions of classic motifs.
Viñas expresses her childlike penchant for playfulness and use of unconventional scale in Blooma, a bold floral pattern inspired by vintage Swedish fabric design. “We can really see the exuberance here. By changing the scale and updating the colors, Ghislaine takes a traditional floral and makes it her own,” Shaw noted.
Kari Kristensen
Kari Kristensen is a contemporary Canadian printmaker and muralist who resides in Vancouver. She embraces art history, recognizing the relevance of artisanal methods in a modern context. Her current focus is on redefining linoleum printmaking, a laborious process which involves drawing, carving, and inking a linoleum matrix to achieve a final print.
“Kari Kristensen is one of my favorites. I adore her landscapes and how she interprets the mountains, water, and forests around Vancouver. They go beyond just a natural motif or illustration and into architectural linework. It’s a really sophisticated way to show landscapes. Moraine Lake is an exceptional example. It depicts the lake located in Alberta, Canada, a special place to her grandmother,” Shaw explained.
Ryan Bradley
Inspired by the various forms of decorative arts and textile design, New York-based artist Ryan Bradley’s work involves the deconstruction of figures or patterns. His experience as a photo retoucher informs his aesthetic, which relies on an additive-subtractive design process. In Bradley’s art, collages of patterns are abstracted through interlacing and weaving elements.
“Erasure is a pattern that Ryan created using hand-cut stencils and pastels. It’s a combination of two related, yet different patterns and colorways. Part of the prominent pattern is removed, which reveals the pattern underneath. There’s this wonderful texture and dimension to it that has movement,” Shaw noted.
Audrey Stone
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Audrey Stone is a keen observer of how color and life shift in nature. Her art explores transitions between lines and colors, utilizing a variety of media. Although Stone’s current work consists of vibrant color gradients, her designs for Wolf-Gordon are inspired by a previous five-year-long series where lines are arranged to express dimension and movement.
“We’re also working with Audrey Stone now, an artist known for her textile paintings. She literally sews color into her paintings. We’re taking that linework of her stitches and making these large-scale digital prints that can be interpreted in any colorway. It brings craft and the touch of the hand to these products,” Shaw said.
Studioestudio
Led by Pablo Alabau and Laura Alandes, Studioestudio, based in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in product design, interior design, photography, and art direction. Alandes has been the longtime stylist and art director for Wolf-Gordon installation photography. Alabau and Alandes studied fine art and industrial design, respectively, in Valencia, Spain, prior to collaborating on a variety of projects. Together, they share a rational approach and artistic vision through designs of simple lines, color, and geometry, creating pieces that evoke emotion.
“Alabau is working with weather, rain, in the case of Autumn. Japanese prints served as an inspiration, but here you have a combination of something really soft and atmospheric with this more deliberate linework of the artist. It’s very easy to live with,” Shaw noted.