5x5 Collection

5 Artists, 25 Products, Celebrating 25 Years

In celebration of 25 years since the creation of Crypton®, we’ve commissioned five contemporary artists from around the globe— each lending a distinct vision to process and use of color— to design a pattern to be digitally printed in our Portland facility on Crypton fabric.

Meet the artists Product specs

Introduction

The artists

Arturo Guerrero, New York, NY

A self-taught painter born in Madrid, Guerrero creates multilayered compositions that evoke complex imagery and wide-ranging references, from ancient landscapes to modern technology, through abstracted forms and the expressive tenor of his signature thick brushstrokes.

The artists

Elizabeth Atterbury, Portland, ME
@e_atterbury
A native of Southern Florida, Atterbury studied studio photography and writing concurrently, and later developed her conceptual approach to include pictorial sculpture, collage and printmaking.

The artists

Ellie Malin, Melbourne, Australia
@elliemalin
A trained printmaker, Malin applies a bold, colorful eye to geometric landscapes rendered in a range of textural mediums.

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Kapitza, London, UK
@kapitza_studio
Taking an aesthetic approach to problem-solving, sisters Petra and Nicole Kapitza both worked independently as graphic designers before founding their collaborative studio focused on explorations into the optics of geometry and color.

The artists

Phillip D. Stearns, Brooklyn, NY
@glitchtextiles
Stearns studied physics and audio engineering before reorienting his attention to artistic endeavors and particularly, textile weavings and analog counterpart to computational logic.

Product Inspiration

Globally inspired, printed in Portland, Maine

Bitdrift by Phillip David Stearns

Created through parametric computation and cellular automata, Bitdrift is sourced from sections of a photograph whose pixels have been algorithmically sorted and shuffled to generate a wholly unique composition that vacillates between order and entropy.

Globally inspired, printed in Portland, Maine

Criss Cross by Kapitza
Informed by a wide range of references, from abstraction to natural forms, the studio's distinct, vibrant aesthetic makes use of a wide color spectrum in Criss Cross, featuring a syncopated, striped pattern in five brilliant colorways.

Globally inspired, printed in Portland, Maine

Five Cities by Ellie Malin
Five Cities combines tonal planes and overlaid cutout shapes that together form a playful abstract composition with a layered and dimensional depth.

Globally inspired, printed in Portland, Maine

Line Variations by Arturo Guerrero
Originally trained as an architect, Guerrero's works often evolve through iteration, forming tectonic planes of oil and watercolor. Line Variations features warm overlapping fields of earth tones and cool indigo blue.

Globally inspired, printed in Portland, Maine

Social Dance by Elizabeth Atterbury
Organic forms and serendipitous collage play into the work of Atterbury. Social Dance grew out of a series of monoprints with Wingate Studio, from which she reconfigured plates of abstract colorforms to create a wholly new composition.

Product Specs

Five Cities 3960

Bitdrift 3958

Line Variations 3961

CrissCross 3959

Social Dance 3962

RxArt

The healing power of art

A portion of the sales from the 5x5 collection will be donated to RxArt. RxArt is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art. It commissions exceptional contemporary artists to transform sterile healthcare facilities into engaging and inspiring environments full of beauty, humor and comfort.

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