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New Shows
Lost was accepted into ARTQUILTScultures, sponsored by the Professional Art Quilt Alliance-South. It will be at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center in Cary, North Carolina, from April 25-May 28, 2008. The artist’s reception was Friday April 25 from 6-8 PM. It is apparently part of the monthly Cary Art Loop.
51 x 51″
Recent Work
2008 is going to be a better year for artmaking…it already is.
Here’s a detail of a piece I can’t show yet, in case it gets into a show that doesn’t want it posted ANYWHERE until it’s accepted or rejected. Okey dokey. I follow your rules.
I didn’t get in (no shock lately), so here’s the whole piece and some more details…Untied was finished in May 2008.
50 3/4″ wide by 55 1/2″ high
Here are some detail shots.
This next piece is tentatively named Loosely Wound. I’m still living with the title. As of June 08, it is quilted and the binding is on, but not hand-stitched.
Primal Scream was finished on January 1st or 3rd. I needed a little extra time to finish the embroidery, so I didn’t get it done in 2007.
52 1/2″ w x 62″ h
A few detail shots…
Then I finished a piece that was originally drawn in 2001, but seemed to want to be unfinished that long. This is Anger Management.
I need to take official, well-lit photographs of that one sometime soon.
And I’m now working on finishing up Trapped in a Room with You, which needs embroidery and beads. That step is taking me way too long. Here it is unquilted…and blurry…
I’ll take official photos and put them on here when it’s done. And I will finally decide whether she’s trapped in A room or The room.
I’m also ready to start stitching on this one, 3-Piece Family…
This is half quilted, but I’m not happy with it, so it got bumped out from under the machine.
Not the best picture in the world, but you get some idea. I have another quilt that needs drastic help, probably using paint, so it’ll have to wait until I can lay it out on a table for days on end…I’m thinking Spring Break. Yet another quilt is in need of quilting, so 2008 could be a banner year for quilting…you never know.
2007
2007 was a rough year for finishing work, although not for starting it. I guess technically I might have finished another 4 pieces in the last 7 days of the year (cough cough)…or maybe 2008 will be more conducive to an artistic life.
The two pieces below were both finished in July 2007, although this one, Walking Time Bomb, should have been finished in January, except I got bamboozled by the embroidery.
43 1/2″ w x 53″ h
I did actually finish most of the embroidery in January, and took just a few final stitches in July.
I also finished Drowning Mary’s Baby in July. This one has beads on it, but no embroidery.
50″ w x 65″ h
I lied…it has embroidery in the leaves of the tree…forgot about that. It used some fairly whopping big pieces of fabric out of my stash, and yet I still have more.
Finished late in 2007 was Birdhead, see below.
23 1/2″ w x 23 1/2″ h
Part of that Bird series, still in progress, is Birdfoot. It needs quilting and lots of work.
