My friend Roberta Walley took me on yet another adventure yesterday to Bergamot Station, a cluster of art galleries in the old Santa Monica Red Car Trolley stop now next door to the brand new and modern Metro Line Station.
The Shoshana Wayne Gallery is showing a collection of very usual Quilts "Hands At Work" by Sabrina Gschwandtner. The artist features traditional quilt designs , but instead of fabric, the Quilts are pieced from hundreds of 16 mm film strips of educational films deaccessioned from the collection of the Fashion Institute of Technology. If you look closely and carefully you can see the film frames filled with images of hands knitting, quilting, embroidering and dyeing. They are all fitted together into quilt blocks sewn together with zigzag stitches on a sewing machine. Absolutely fascinating, colorful, inspiring and bringing those traditional Quilts into a very modern graphic setting.
The show continues at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404 through August 29th. If you are n the SoCal area, Go!
Check out Nina Marie Sayre's Off The Wall Fridays!
