Eye of The Beholder: Photography Exhibit in Houston

You can check out pictures from the Eye of The Quilter exhibit in Houston here:

http://www.quiltart.com/eob/

Mine is on the last picture at the bottom. Some beautiful work in the exhibit.

The Galaxie, Third Annual Square Foot Exhibit

Here is how the show looked at the opening. It was a great show that I was proud to be a part of.

Adrian taking a closer look.

This is my piece for the The Galaxie, Third Annual Square Foot Exhibit, which opens Friday May 29th, 7-10 at 2306 W Barry at Rockwell.
You were given a 12 inch square canvas to do what you pleased with.
This was my first time wrapping my work around a canvas and I think it came out pretty good.

The back, nice and neat.
Here is a side view.

There may be more canvas wrapped pieces in the future.

Blending Art and Tradition, Genesee Valley Quilt Club

Here it is completed, I am very happy with the way it turned out.
This is for the Genesee Valley Quilt Club 2009 Challenge. For this challenge you were given a fat quarter of fabric, which is the fabric piece in the hands above. I painted it with Lumiere by Jaguard to add sparkle and free motion quilted it to accent the heart shape.
I then made the hands using InnerFuse and batting. I will paint in some shadows to add depth and they will come out from the border. It is my first three dimensional piece.

This is the picture the piece is based on, my hands handing over the tradition of quilting to my 4-year-old niece, Maya. The background represents traditional quilting and the piece in the hands represents art quilting, which is my chosen form of expression using fabric as paint.

Urban Decay

Here is the completed piece.

This is what I have so far. I am using Caran D'Ache neocolor watersoluble crayons.

Once it is finished I will thread paint it to accent the details.

Cropped image for piece.
Original picture.

Fragments: Urban Decay Challenge

The challenge is to help tell a piece of the Urban Decay story by documenting Urban
Decay with a photograph, then taking a portion of that photograph and creating a quilted
abbreviated image of that section in cloth, fiber and embellishments, reclaimed or new.

CFANN: Chicago Fringe Artists Networking Night

I was honored to be one of the artists invited to be a part of Chicago Fringe Artists Networking Night last Saturday night. CFANN is a one night only event for fringe artists, working in a variety of media, to discuss and celebrate the work that they do for Chicago.

I Am, Am I and Obama Equals Hope

President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts
The Cafritz Arts Center, Maryland Feb. 9-March 5, 2009

This is a recent quilt made in celebration of Obama's presidential win.

I am, Am I
for The My World in Black and White Exhibit for
Fiberarts Connection of Southern California, 2nd place winner
fiberartsconnsocal@yahoogroups.com

What is going on in the quilt you might ask. Let me explain, I was reading Eckhart Tolle’s “New Earth” book and he talks a lot about in the book about this concept of “I am”. Like anything that happens to you in your life, you are just supposed to get to this point, that I could never get to, where you just feel like, “I am.” So if you are driving in traffic and it is frustrating, instead of getting frustrated, you are just supposed to be like, “I am.” That anything in life, like gossiping, or anything negative, you are supposed to go back to this concept of “I am” and just… you exist. That is it. “I am.” And I just couldn’t get this concept, and still struggle with it. I incorporated those letters into the quilt in big block letters. The left one said I AM, with a female figure incorporated into the design, and she sort of looks like she was struggling, she is painted over the white with the Luminar Sparkle paint. The right panel says, AM I and is a mirror image of the left.

The concept is that in life we are always asking ourselves, we might say, “ I am an artist” but, then there are days that are bad, and you might be like, “Am I an artist?” Or you are either like, “I am a good wife” or “I am a good friend” and there are other times when you are like, “Am I good friend? Am I a good wife?” So those questions that we constantly ask ourselves.

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The making stage

The designing stage




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