A Little Trompe L'oeil

 

Where??  What??

Have some fun unpicking this shot.

PHES Gallery in Carlsbad, CA

 5 of my pieces were invited to this exhibit of So Cal heavy hitters.   And, yes, that's After the 6th Extinction on the announcement.   This invitational show includes work by about a dozen amazing textile artists.  Don't miss it is you are nearby!!

Turns Out: Chicken Little Was Right!

 The sky is indeed falling on this poor little guy!   This quilt (with 4 months of hand stitching) is 41" x 33" and my new phone's photos capacity really shows the details.  Does the world feel like this these days?

    

Strings of Desire

 Lucky to see this great show of contemporary embroidery in LA with 5 of my dear friends at Craft Contemporary.  Had lunch in West Adams which was GREAT!!  Mixed media hand stitching, what more could one ask for??!?!!

Industry/Luxury

 Cool upcoming Art Cloth Network exhibit!!   Stop by if you can.

New Art Cloth Network Exhibition Info

 

CAGED

 CAGED is my latest 3D piece.  It refers back to the art quilts I did several years ago on the subject of incarceration.   I came upon a rusty old tomato cage and knew right away that it was crying out to become a piece of art.  I covered it on 2 of its 3 sides with Fosshape to act as a substrate for the textiles and stitching.   To that I applied cheese cloth I'd dyed murky browns.  Then I made warts and knobs and other oddments, mostly hand dyed, that I stitched into place through the open third.  I spray painted the interior when all the stitching was complete.   Getting it to balance was a bit of a trick, but it's very steady now.    It stands just over 2' high.   

Caged

Usually I put only images of finished work on my blog, but I'm so happy to be back in my studio for the first time since December (thank you EMERGENCE, my solo show in Long Beach) that I just can't resist showing the first third of the new piece.  It will be about 30" tall.  More cheese cloth is in the rusty dye bath getting ready for tomorrow.  The rusty tomato cage is the armature. 

Emergence

Some images from the opening at the Long Beach JCC atrium gallery.  January 2023.  The show is up through January so stop by if you're in the neighborhood!  It's open 7 days/week from 6 am to 6 pm.

Exhibit Announcement

 Please come on down to Long Beach to see my solo show any time in January.

End of Year Catch Up

 I'm going to throw a lot of recent work up as I need to catch up on posting.  I'm prepping for my show, Emergence, at the Alpert JCC in Long Beach, CA,  so haven't kept up with much else - It opens 1/3/23; the opening event is 1/8 from 2-4, but the gallery is open 7 days/week from 6am - 6pm so hop on over any time.  (Take a look at DeborahWeir.net for a LOT more new work! as well.)

Bound Geometry Square:

My 12 Cycles Pieces will be on view at the Contra Costa College Gallery in N. California February-March 2023:

2 New Held Harmless Pieces #16 and #17:

Some work I did in Jane Dunnewold's spackle workshop this year.  Yup, that's real dirt on the square ones!  So much fun.

Wounded Sentinels Update

 I started making Wounded Sentinels during Fire Season in California in 2020.  I have been making them with   some regularly ever since building an expanding collection of about 20.   They range in height from 10" to 7'.   Fosshape is the primary medium.  It holds its shape when heated.  Each piece was created over a form from toilet paper rolls to giant tubes used to form cement.  

Recently, I have been going back into some of the earlier ones to add more "ashes" to their outsides.   All kinds of studio detritus serve as ashes which I hand stitch in place.  These will be on display in my solo exhibition, as yet untitled, in January in Long Beach, CA.  Stay tuned!!

From Deborah Weir  FiberFly@icloud.com 

Who'd a Thunk??!?!!

"Congratulations! Your quilted art, Murano was selected by Fiber Art Now’s juror Nancy Bavor for first prize in the upcoming Excellence InQuilts exhibition. Murano will be acknowledged with a gold 1^st prize ribbon on your page in the fall issue of the magazine due out October 1. A check for $300 will be mailed to you at that time."

Well that is a thrilling surprise.  There's a 3D surface representing peeling paint.

CA101 Write Up

 Opening this Friday in Redondo Beach, CA.  

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/08/25/ca-101-art-exhibit-returns-to-redondo-beach-to-showcase-work-in-unusual-spaces/

In the San Diego area?

 If so, please come by to see this exhibition.  I have had 2 pieces from my held Harmless series juried in.