Galactic Dance #3

I created this is a richly dyed, printed, painted surface that I finished with water soluble media.  I made the needle lace X's on water soluble material which I washed away after the stitching was done (I added a bit of paint to the X's to complement the ground fabric).  I finished it with some invisible quilting stitches.

 

Sparks!

Bruce Hoffman rejected Sparks last year when he juried the Art Cloth Network's annual challenge.  Boo on him.   I love the piece and just sold it!!  Silk, two layers dyed simultaneously with the same fold pattern.  They look very different as they are completely different kinds of silk.   I added embroidery and a light sprinkling of foil for sparkle.  Hope it's happy in its new home.

 

Roiling Waters

Roiling Waters displays the chaos in the oceans' gyres (garbage patches).  Upcycled plastics and a panel of bubble-wrap are some of the items found adrift in our seas.

Dissolution (Rhomboid)

Dissolution is a reconfiguration of seven of my former quilts - recycled!

Night Ride

I'm sitting in my hotel room in Honolulu looking out on Waikiki Beach.   It's 2 AM on a moon-lit night and there are scores of surfers enjoying the ride.

Juarez

My quilt Juarez, which was banned at the United Nations, was on exhibit at Oasis in Palm Springs, October 2 - 4.  It is part of Solar Sister, a touring exhibition on the topic of energy's impact on women's lives.  The underlying image is a map of the border between Juarez and El Paso.  The piece honors the women who work in the well-lit American factories who walk home in the dark.  Many face rape and even murder in the unlit streets of the Sonoran Desert.   

 

Finding White

Finding White is a small quilt which is being donated to the silent auction for the international charity, Women Like Us; a very worthwhile cause.

SAQA Star!

Cogs

"Cogs" is a finalist in the Infinity Art Gallery's online Fiber Arts Exhibit 2014.  Here is the link:              http://www.infinityartgallery.com/fiber-arts-2014/gallery/
I painted this 18" X 18" piece of home dec fabric then screen printed and hand stitched french knots.

Penultimate Module of Chroma: Brown

Burlap feed bags and rust

Formulators #4

This is the fourth piece in the Formulators round robin.  The bean-like form occurs in all of the 3 preceding pieces in this series.  I hand-dyed the ground fabrics and hand stitched them in place.

Fiber Fuber

Well, I went to pick up two of my fiber pieces at Peggy Zask's South Bay Contemporary Art Gallery today after they were up for a month and found that NO ONE on staff had corrected these wall tags!  This is why we FIBER/textile artists need to keep showing our work everywhere we can so no one walks by this silliness and thinks it's okay.    I doubt anyone would have allowed a tag to stay if paint was spelled PANTS on it.

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2 New Chroma: Brown Modules

Chroma: Brown Bark is entirely hand stitched.  Each small strip of fabric/yarn is hand stitched into place:

 

Chroma: Brown Hide

Paper Collages

Here are 4 paper collages I've done in the last 2 years.

                   Chroma Brown:

                    Churning:

                  Chroma Purple:

 

                   Arctic Summer:

Australia Wide 4

I was lucky to have my piece, Gyres 6, juried into this touring exhibition.    The show will take place in multiple venues throughout Australia through 2016.   Ice dyed cotton and upcycled household plastics comprise the work.

 

Smoulder

This yard square piece of art cloth is a silk/cotton blend I painted with thickened dyes.  California is experiencing prolonged drought in recent years and flames burn through tree trunk terribly rapidly.   Bits of ash fly here and there.

Fabulous Images

Algae

Algae is a small quilt with a lot of surface design which is traveling in a Quilts on the Wall Exhibition.

Art v. Craft

The debate rages . . .

Coffee Anyone?

This is the next module for Chroma: Brown.  I dyed these bamboo filters and am delighted with how fabulously they came out.  So much texture and interesting colors.  They are very "palm tree-y" which suggests all kind of interesting possibilities down the line.

Exhibition

I will be showing two pieces at the South Bay Contemporary Gallery.  Opening night is August 2 from 6-9 pm.   Ground floor of the Peninsula Center in the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.   The show will be up until August 31.  Come on by!  Both of these pieces are entirely hand stitched.

 Golden Splat!

Embroidery