This piece is a small ‘quilted’ collage made from window screen, kozu and lace papers with digital and hand-printed images, layered and stitched. With cutouts and found objects.
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Category: Portfolio of Art Quilts/Mixed Media Textiles
TEXTILE & MIXED MEDIA WORKS
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Lucina Lighting the Way
Quilt for Change recently asked me to submit a piece for their Light, Hope, and Opportunity Challenge. The project raises awareness about the Solar Sisters program, where African women entrepreneurs are given loans to start their own businesses. They buy inexpensive rechargeable solar lights to sell in their communities. This means fewer costly and dangerous kerosene lanterns in African villages. What a great cause! The exhibition will start in Geneva next month, and hopefully travel to the US.
I have been thinking about burning the edges of a piece for a while, and this seemed like an excellent opportunity.
Here is my artist statement for the piece:
Lucina Lighting the Way
Lucina was the Roman goddess of light and childbirth: She who brings children into the light. Here, the pregnant goddess holds a golden orb. The lively color scheme and bright shapes evoke a hopeful spring. This quilt is a tribute to modern-day Lucinas, our Solar Sisters, who are bringing safe, affordable, solar-powered light to their friends and neighbors. The singed edges are a reminder of the dangers of kerosene lanterns, which maim and kill users across Africa each year. Hand-dyed, and printed linen, painted silk, layered and machine stitched. Techniques include cutwork with a burned-edge finish.
detail:
Sans Samaras
Sans Samaras is hand-dyed, discharged and over-dyed silk dupion, hand-printed, layered, stitched and stretched on a frame. With felted wool embellishment. In a private collection.
Zen II
Handpainted and screen-printed silk, layered, stitched, stretched on a frame, with felted wool embellishment. In a private collection.
Maelstrom
Hand-dyed, printed fabric, layered, stitched, cut and mounted on dyed and stitched fabric.
Zen I
Zen I, 2013. Hand-painted, screen- printed silk with felted wool, layered, stitched, cut and stretched on a frame. 26” x 14.”
Free Radical IV
Off the Wall
This piece features shibori-dyed silk fabrics, screen printed by hand with iridescent textile paints, layered and stitched with raw edge cutwork. The larger piece is layered over another smaller piece to make it 3-dimensional. In a private collection.
Channeling Gehry I
This piece is inspired by the Beekman Plaza skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry in NYC. There are seven layers of surface design on rayon fabric in this mixed media piece.
Disturbances
This rayon and silk piece is hand-dyed twice, screen printed, layered and stitched, pleated and mounted on stretched canvas.
Free Radical III
You can see an earlier version of Free Radical here. I inverted the composition to highlight the twice-dyed fabric. The dyes are called ‘pineapple’ and ‘melon’ and I almost called this piece ‘Fruit Salad,” but I refrained. I tried some new-for-me techniques: raw cut edges and using stencils and acrylic textile paint to put the shapes on fabric. I am especially intrigued by the cutwork and will continue to explore that. The piece is layered and stitched in the border only.
Complementary Samaras III
Hand-dyed, screen printed fabrics, layered and stitched. Mounted on stretch canvas. See videos of how this piece was stitched: Videos: How I Work.
By the Sea
Oil paints on cotton fabrics, layered and stitched. Copper seashell embellishments by Patricia Healey.
Can’t Curb My Enthusiasm
Hand-painted fabric, layered and stitched with a silk ribbon flange.
Cappucino with Extra Foam
44” x 13.5” Discharged fabrics, layered, stitched, and painted. Title inspired by the cafe au lait color of the discharged fabric and the tall, bubbly S curve composition.
Free Radical II
14” x 14” Hand painted fabrics, layered, stitched, and stretched on a wooden frame. I love the idea of ‘free radicals,’ even if they are bad for you.
Sssamaras
19” x 12.5” Hand-painted fabric, layered and stitched. Hand-dyed silk ribbon trim. Short and sweet.
Almost Symmetrical
73” x 45” Diptych. Hand-painted fabrics, layered and stitched. This piece may be hung vertically or horizontally. See it at my solo exhibition at Arts Marketplace, mid- August through September 29.
Complementary Samaras
44” x 32” Diptych. Handpainted fabrics, layered and stitched. Stretched on wooden frames. Looks great hanging vertically or horizontally, offset or aligned. See it now at Flux Gallery.
Primarily Samaras
32” x 38” Hand-painted fabric, layered and machine stitched. This is the first in the Samaras series, and has traveled around the country and to France as part of the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ Points of View exhibition. See it now at Flux Gallery in Plaza Palomino, Tucson.
Circlesss II
61” x 44” I explore the S curve composition with various surface design techniques, including discharged fabric, paint, decorative machine stitching and embellishments. Layered and machine stitched.
Circlesss III
58” x 42” Another from the series that explores surface design techniques and the S curve composition. Discharged fabrics, paint, foil, decorative stitching, layered and machine stitched. Copper embellishments by Patricia Healey.
Circlesss IV
28.5” x 32” I continue exploring the S curve composition with this horizontal piece. Discharged cotton fabrics, painted, with decorative stitching, foil, layered and stitched. Copper embellishments by Patricia Healey. See it now at Flux Gallery.
Sahuaro Blooms
51” x 51” The wonderful copper ladybugs inspired this cheerful piece. Hand-painted fabrics, layered, trapunto, and machine stitched. Copper embellishments by Patricia Healey.