05/26/2022
Quilt Show @ Salmon Falls Gallery (1 Ashfield Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370) on exhibit through June 27th. Group Quilt exhibit filling both our featured exhibit spaces.
Curated by Rachel Gunnard
Participating Artists/Quilters:
Ann Brauer, Carson Converse, Carol Anne Grotrian, Audrey Hyvonen, Wen Redmond, Lee Sprouli, Sarah Stroud, Timna Tarr
Ann Brauer writes: "Since I can remember, I have always loved working with color and fabric. I am a self-taught quilt maker who creates abstract landscapes by piecing and sewing thin strips of cotton fabric through the cotton batting onto the back. My work is in numerous museums, institutions and private collections including the American Museum of Art + Design, the Lodge at Turning Stone in Verona, NY, the Federal District Courthouse in Springfield, MA and Pat Metheny.
Each work is a unique expression of a time and place. I do all the work myself in my studio in Shelburne Falls, MA."
Carson Converse is an artist and designer passionate about textiles and the tradition of making cloth. After studying sculpture, her interest in the decorative arts and architecture led her to complete a master’s degree in interior design. While she continues to work in a range of creative disciplines, quilting has become a primary form of self-expression and personal contemplation. When creating quilts, Carson’s design process is fluid and relies on constant experimentation, observation, and reaction. Individual concepts and inspirations overlap and inform each other - ideas are often explored, put aside, then reworked or incorporated into another quilt years later.
Carol Anne Grotrian has combined East & West--American quilting & Japanese textile traditions for decades. She hand-dyes all her fabrics
in colors or indigo, often using shibori to create patterns.
Carol Anne's current quilts are all hand sewn, either whole cloth or using raw edge applique and boro--Japanese mending--as well as hand quilting to sew the usual layers of a quilt together.
Audrey Hyvonen makes quilts with commercial fabrics, natural imagery and abstract representation. A primarily self-taught textile artist, she has explored approaches in both traditional and mosaic piecework, layered collage and mark making through quilt texture.
Wen Redmond, a lover of nature, delights in creating dialogue and changing perspectives of photographic art.
She works intuitively, encouraging ‘flow’, and experimentation.
Each work is individual and a communication between her inner imagination and later, the viewer.
Lee Sproull writes: "I make abstract art using quilt-making materials, tools, and methods. I paint with solid color fabric that I cut and sew into large swoops and forms. I create pointillist textures by combining small pieces of printed fabrics embedded within larger compositional forms.
A quilt, most simply defined, is three layers of cloth sewn together. My work explores ideas about the layered constructs of perception and meaning. I work in black and white to show the layered interplay of lines and shapes, figure and ground, without the distraction of color. I work in color because color adds its own vocabulary of emotion to perception and meaning."
Sarah Stroud has had an interest in textiles and sewing, as well as drawing, painting, and collage for most of her life. She made her first quilts as gifts for her husband and children, and discovered that making quilts was the perfect way to merge those interests. She now creates one-of-a-kind pieces made from both new and repurposed fabrics in her home studio. Not being one drawn to precision, Sarah's work is created without the use of a pattern, and consists of abstract, improvisational pieces that explore color, value, shape, balance,and line. Sarah holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and has shown her work in both solo and group exhibitions. Sarah lives in Leverett, MA with her husband and two children.
Timna Tarr comes from a long line of quilters but did not begin quilting until after studying art history in college. She bought her first longarm in 2001 and began quilting clients' quilts shortly thereafter. Timna’s own nationally award-winning quilts are in private and corporate collections. They have also been seen in numerous exhibits, magazines, and books as well as on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV. Timna is a designer for Studio e Fabrics and is an in-demand teacher and speaker. She lives in South Hadley, MA and works out of her studio in Holyoke, MA.
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