Friday, July 28, 2017

Film Strip Quilts at Bergamot Station



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!

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Saturday, July 15, 2017

More Untethered Thread...

My quilt "Swan Song" was just returned from the Untethered Thread exhibit that ran last month at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. Another great SAQA Southern California/Nevada Regional exhibit . So many talented quilt artists in our neighborhood. Thank you Laura Bisagna for organizing this wonderful opportunity.

When I went down to San Diego county to view, I filmed bits of pieces of the show. I've now put it together- my first attempt with iMovie..... not great but here is the finished product.  Hope you enjoy it and get a little flavor of this wonderful venue for displaying Art Quilts.

"Untethered Thread" June, 2017

On another happy note... Thursday brought some very happy news from Houston! My piece "East/West" has been named a Finalist in the IQA show World of Beauty at International Quilt Festival Houston. It will be winging its way to Texas next week.  The largest in the US, Quilt Festival runs November 1-5 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Downtown Houston. I'm thinking of going this year, so maybe I'll see you there!

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