The opening for the SDA exhibit was this past
Friday night and Arlee has put up two posts of photos and comments on the SDA blog.
You can see it here: http://surfacedesignalberta.blogspot.ca/
Thanks to friends Ros, Kirsten, Yogi, and Liz for coming out to help celebrate surface design!
Showing posts with label gallery shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gallery shows. Show all posts
April 15, 2014
April 04, 2014
WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?
First exhibit in 2014!
I am so happy to announce this great start to the year. I have been busy creating new pieces and want to share them with you.
The Surface Design Association
is an International group connecting fibre and mixed media artists.
Surface Design encompasses the coloring, patterning, and structuring of
fiber and fabric. This involves creative exploration of processes such
as printing, dyeing, painting, stitching, embellishing, quilting,
weaving, knitting, felting, and papermaking. The Alberta chapter has
over 54 members; 24 artists are participating in the first Alberta SDA
exhibit.
I delivered my two pieces yesterday, the show was hung today, and it opens tomorrow, Saturday the 5th. I will be attending the opening on Friday, April 11th and invite everyone to come out and chat with the many artists who will be present.
October 11, 2013
BRIDGING WATERS in Sidney BC
The show in Sidney was in the Tulista Gallery along the seawall walk. This provided a steady stream of people coming through ready to look at the latest show on display and become engaged in the works.
Inside the door...
Wendy Klotz's piece was one of the first seen when entering the gallery. "Lost At Sea" is about the statistic that a Nova Scotian fisherman is more than 19 times as likely to die on the job than any other occupation. She has knit 19 fish that are found offshore - cod, halibut, and haddock.
Barb McCaffery made a series on bivalve shells found as fossils and still today onshore...
Ingrid Lincoln explored Cape d'Or - a windswept corner with a lighthouse protecting sailors from rocky outcrops below...
Lesley Turner's "Postcards From Fundy", looking at the history of human settlement as represented through the textiles they wore and used in various time periods...
Two of my pieces using free-motion embroidery over tissue paper. The first represents the iconic sight from Hopewell Rocks; and the second is a boat in drydock awaiting repairs from the ever present elements of the sea and saltwater.
Inside the door...
Wendy Klotz's piece was one of the first seen when entering the gallery. "Lost At Sea" is about the statistic that a Nova Scotian fisherman is more than 19 times as likely to die on the job than any other occupation. She has knit 19 fish that are found offshore - cod, halibut, and haddock.
Barb McCaffery made a series on bivalve shells found as fossils and still today onshore...
Ingrid Lincoln explored Cape d'Or - a windswept corner with a lighthouse protecting sailors from rocky outcrops below...
Lesley Turner's "Postcards From Fundy", looking at the history of human settlement as represented through the textiles they wore and used in various time periods...
Two of my pieces using free-motion embroidery over tissue paper. The first represents the iconic sight from Hopewell Rocks; and the second is a boat in drydock awaiting repairs from the ever present elements of the sea and saltwater.
July 29, 2012
London in May - gallery art
While in London I only took in two gallery shows - one at the TATE MODERN and the other at the VICTORIAN AND ALBERT museum of decorative arts and design.
Yayoi KUSAMA, the queen of the polka dots.
Ever since my daughter saw her show in New Zealand and raved to me about it I have been on the lookout for one of my own. It lived up to expectations!
A retrospective of her career, from her series Accumulation: sex obsession (with its stuffed penises) to Aggression: One Thousand Boats (repetitive simplistic silk screened image in the background)...
I'm Here, But Nothing (a darkened domestic interior scene featuring everyday furniture and accessories - but covered with fluorescent stickers which glow in the dark.)
Infinity Mirror Room with its endless layers of mirrors and hanging lights that twinkled in different colours over a period of time. I had this room to myself for awhile and just zenned out in meditative joy with the ever changing pattern.
The Victorian and Albert had a special exhibit up that I had been recommending to people who were heading to London for the first half of 2012. Items woven out of spider silk!
This amazing golden colour is the actual colour of the silk from the Golden Orb spider found only in Madagascar. The base fabric is woven out of threads twisted from 96 individual spider silk strands, and the heavier threads used for the embroidery are twisted from 960 strands.
These items took over 8 years and 1 million spiders to produce.
There were two items...
A shawl:
and the piece de resistance - the cape:
The embroidered and applique decorations on the spider silk cape takes its inspiration from poetry, myth and the world of nightmares. The spider and plant life imagery was created using a wide range of stitches and techniques. The cape is the result of thousands of hours spent reeling the silk of over one million spiders and twisting it into thread to be woven into cloth and then embroidered.
This is great article from wired.com that explains the process and how rare the entire process is (can only get silk from the female spiders, for 4 months of the year, the laborious techniques used in milking the spiders, etc, etc...) Read it here.
Yayoi KUSAMA, the queen of the polka dots.
Ever since my daughter saw her show in New Zealand and raved to me about it I have been on the lookout for one of my own. It lived up to expectations!
A retrospective of her career, from her series Accumulation: sex obsession (with its stuffed penises) to Aggression: One Thousand Boats (repetitive simplistic silk screened image in the background)...
I'm Here, But Nothing (a darkened domestic interior scene featuring everyday furniture and accessories - but covered with fluorescent stickers which glow in the dark.)
Infinity Mirror Room with its endless layers of mirrors and hanging lights that twinkled in different colours over a period of time. I had this room to myself for awhile and just zenned out in meditative joy with the ever changing pattern.
The Victorian and Albert had a special exhibit up that I had been recommending to people who were heading to London for the first half of 2012. Items woven out of spider silk!
This amazing golden colour is the actual colour of the silk from the Golden Orb spider found only in Madagascar. The base fabric is woven out of threads twisted from 96 individual spider silk strands, and the heavier threads used for the embroidery are twisted from 960 strands.
These items took over 8 years and 1 million spiders to produce.
There were two items...
A shawl:
and the piece de resistance - the cape:
The embroidered and applique decorations on the spider silk cape takes its inspiration from poetry, myth and the world of nightmares. The spider and plant life imagery was created using a wide range of stitches and techniques. The cape is the result of thousands of hours spent reeling the silk of over one million spiders and twisting it into thread to be woven into cloth and then embroidered.
This is great article from wired.com that explains the process and how rare the entire process is (can only get silk from the female spiders, for 4 months of the year, the laborious techniques used in milking the spiders, etc, etc...) Read it here.
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