ArtQuilt Elements 2010
April 17 - May 19, 2010 / The Wayne Art Center / Wayne, PA
The mission of AQE is to create an East Coast venue for art quilts that will promote the contemporary quilt as an art form. In this exhibition we present contemporary quilts that reflect or embrace original, unique and innovative methods incorporating impressive craftsmanship and technical prowess. ARTQUILT ELEMENTS 2010 FULL COLOR CATALOG
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ARTQUILT ELEMENTS 2010: VIDEO TOUR
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Natalya Aikens*
NY
Piter I
Elizabeth Barton
GA
Strange Beauty
Linda Beach*
AK
Dawn
Regina Benson
CO
Night Bloom
Dawn W. Boyd*
CO
Le Croix de Guerre
Peggy Brown
IN
Changing Colors III
Benedicte Caneill*
NY
Units 19: Cityscape
Cher Cartwright*
CA
On the Other Hand
Paula J. Chung*
NV
Japanese Anemone I
Jette Clover
BEL
White Wall 1
Linda Colsh
BEL
Cabinet of Curiosities
Yael David-Cohen*
UK
Musical Explosion
Fenella J. Davies*
UK
Shadows
Helene Davis
KY
Incarnation
Sandra T. Donabed*
FL
Evil Apples
Linda J. Engstrom*
AZ
Web of Life
Dianne Firth
AU
Cell Structure #7
Denise M. Furnish
KY
Nine Patch
Leesa Zarinelli Gawlik
ITA
Timeline II
Lutgard Gerber-Billiau*
BEL
Black Hole #I
Dianne K. Hricko*
PA
Urban Rhythm
Jeannette Jacobs*
RI
Splash
Terry Jarrard-Dimond
SC
Joy and Sorrow
Jess E. Jones*
TN
Ligament
Anita Kaplan*
CA
Graffiti III, Cappadocia
Katherine Knauer*
NY
Katrina
Paula Kovarik*
TN
Spring
Pat Kroth
WI
Pathways
Liz Kuny*
NJ
A Steady Beat
Judith Larzelere
RI
I (Heart) Summer
Eileen Lauterborn
NY
Afterimage
Susan Lenz*
SC
Father and Mother
Susan L. Lumsden*
MO
Slipstream Adventure
Libby & Jim Mijanovich*
NC
All In
Lori S. Moum
VA
Kimono Form #4
Sharon Nemirov*
AZ
Leaf Flakes
Wen Redmond
NH
Perspective of Trees
Toot Reid
WA
Aug 5, 2008 - March 28, 2009
Leslie J. Riley
IL
Chutes and Ladders
Luanne Rimel*
MO
Touch
Deidre Scherer*
VT
Into Light
Susan M. Shie
OH
The Food Scales/Justice
Diane Siebels*
VA
His Remembered Tree
Mary Ruth Smith*
TX
Crossover
Virginia A. Spiegel
IL
Boundary Waters 48
Daphne P. Taylor
NY
Quilt Drawing #11
Amy Thomas*
WA
Quilt No. 1
Bette Uscott-Woolsey
PA
Passing Fancy
Cynthia L. Vogt*
VA
Ishi-Datami
Kent Williams
WI
Light Emitting Fabric
* indicates an artist’s first appearance in AQE
ARTQUILT ELEMENTS 2010 JURORS Jason Pollen, Kansas City MO Jason Pollen is an internationally recognized artist and teacher known for his fiber art and use of innovative techniques. He exhibits in major fine art galleries in Europe, Asia and the United States. A native New Yorker, Jason has lived and worked in Paris, London, Zurich, India and Tibet, and he has taught at the Royal College of Art in London, the Pratt Institute in New York, and the Parsons School of Design in New York. He is currently the chair of the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department and president o the Surface Design Association.
Robin Schwalb, New York NY Robin Schwalb explores the rich variety of the written word in her graphically compelling quilts and fabric collages. The use of written symbols in her work balances an appreciation of their abstract beauty with the desire to include the "found art" of relevant texts. However, since the natural tendency to read a text disrupts emotional or intuitive responses to the work, the artist tries to circumvent this in several ways: by using individual letters or ideograms from exotic or obsolete languages; by using the text decoratively as a repeating pattern in the background; by so cropping and chopping the text that it becomes illegible; or by concealing the text in the quilting. A wry sense of humor informs her choice of image and text, which are manipulated and combined for maximum visual impact. The desire to use specific, personally meaningful images dictates a process oriented approach. Schwalb transforms her basic material with photo silk-screen printing, stencilling, dyeing and painting, in addition to the standard repertory of piecing, appliqué, and quilting.
A native of New York City, Schwalb studied painting at the State University of New York at Binghamton, receiving her BA in 1974. She has continued her studies in surface design, studying photo silk screen printing (Gerald Marks, 1981/2 & 1989/90); stencilling (Katherine Knauer, 1989); disperse dye imagery transfer (Richard Daehnert, 1990); fabric dyeing (Mickey Lawler, 1989, and Linda MacDonald, 1991); alternative quiltmaking materials (Arturo Sandoval, 1993); and spontaneous screen printing (Kerr Grabowski, 1997). Deborah C. Warner, Philadelphia PA Deborah Warner is a professor and Chair of the Textile Design Department at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been a member of the faculty for thirty eight years. Professor Warner has a B.S. in Art Education from Moore College of Art and Design, a M.Ed in Art Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MFA in Crafts, Major in Fiber from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Deborah Warner has been exhibiting her work for over thirty five years and has participated in over 80 group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has had seven solo exhibitions. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Artist Fellowship, a Leeway Foundation Grant, five Faculty Development Grants, and a Lindback Distinguished Professor Award. She is in the Who's Who in America as well as the Who's Who of American Women.
Ms. Warner is represented in numerous private and public collections including the Daphne Farago Collection, the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, SmithKline Beecham, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.