Category: Art Quilt

Chrysalis Studio’s annual Open House & Group Show

November 22, 2013

Chrysalis Studio‘s annual Open House & Group Show SOMArts in SF last night was a huge success with at least 150-200 guests attending.  Exciting to see a variety of fresh-off-the-press fine art prints and see demonstrations of linocut and mono printing techniques by Chrysalis Studio printmakers.  Artists included: Greg Adams, Owen Christoph, Jan Currie, Katie Gilmartin, … More Chrysalis Studio’s annual Open House & Group Show

Origins

August 5, 2013

ORIGINS, a group show featuring 6 Post Baccalaureate Certificate candidates at UC Berkeley Extension will be on view from 8/6 through 8/25 in the upstairs gallery area.  Artists Reception Aug 19, 8 – 9:30 pm. Views of the show Left to Right:  Andrew Somera, Tito Vandermeyden, Meghana Deodhar Meghana Deodhar Left to right:  Sumiko Shimada, Priscilla Read, Andrew Somera Priscilla … More Origins

Bones in a Circle

April 2, 2013

Bones I and Bones II – each ~ 10 1/2″ x 27 3/4″ Continuing with my circle series, I patched together fabric monoprinted with my circle motif, then added hand stitched running stitches around some of the circles and vertical lines of machine stitching. After looking at the composition I decided to print onto fabric … More Bones in a Circle

Working in Circles

April 1, 2013

Continuing to work in a series, I decided to explore ways of printing on fabric using a simple shape, the circle, to evoke living forms.  I monoprinted several pieces of fabric with a few colors of acrylic paint using a Gelli Arts monoprinting plate. Each fabric piece was around 12″ x 20″. These fabrics will be … More Working in Circles

Endangered

December 17, 2012

In the Working in Series class this quarter, I had several pieces in progress at once.  One of my pieces began with a UFO (quilting term for UnFinished Object) that I found in my fabric stash.  The UFO consisted of a number of randomly shaped blocks pieced together several years ago that didn’t seem to lead anywhere … More Endangered

Working in a Series

December 11, 2012

For the past several weeks I’ve been in Pamela Lanza’s UC Berkeley Extension class, Working in Series.  Here’s the course description: The process of working in series is an effective vehicle to unlock creative potential, capitalize on unexpected discoveries and uncover new forms of self-expression. Illustrated lectures introduce you to contemporary artists who work in series … More Working in a Series

The World Needs More

August 9, 2012

In Pamela Lanza’s class Voice and Vision at the San Francisco Art Institute, we’ve been exploring ways to incorporate text into our work including using randomness and spontaneity in our processes.  One of our exercises was to clip random words and phrases from magazines, then turn them into poems that we could use in our … More The World Needs More

Rainy City at the Blue Line Gallery

July 10, 2012

My Rainy City art quilt will be shown at the Blue Line Gallery’s 2012 Annual Juried Membership Show in Roseville. Blue Line Gallery July 20 – August 18, 2012 Opening Reception July 21 – 7 – 9 pm Hours and Directions 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 Roseville, CA 95678 (916) 783-4117 Rainy City 31 1/2″x 40 1/4″

Collage Art Quilt

November 15, 2011

This is an art quilt still in progress made from a collage using text and image I made last month. I liked the collage so much that I decided to make it into a textile piece. I scanned the image at the highest resolution my scanner would allow and printed the images onto fabric with … More Collage Art Quilt