Opening Reception:  Saturday, April 17, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Wayne Art Center 413 Maplewood Ave   /  Wayne, PA 19087
(610) 688-3553   /  www.wayneart.org

  
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

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.