Fiber Arts
July 22, 2011 — August 21, 2011The Fiber Arts exhibition includes the works of 5 artists, displaying contemporary approaches to traditional craft materials and techniques. Colors and textures come together to delight the senses in this sumptuous exhibition.
Louise Sharakan creates colorful meditative mandalas using a combination of techniques: quilting, weaving and beading on a foundation of pieced, hand-‐dyed silks. For twenty years Sharakan designed collections that incorporated these silks as the foundation for her mandala work.
Barbara Wyckoff combines antique dyed kimono cloth from Japan with her own dyed fabric to create tapestries. She uses both hand and machine techniques in sewing layers of fibers and fabrics into bowls.
Patricia Solan, a member of the Original Doll Artist Council of America, builds fantastical sculptured figures of colored felt. Her dolls have been exhibited in three one-‐person shows and numerous juried exhibitions.
Sally Shore paints with ribbon. Through a process derived from basketry, Shore weaves together multiple colored ribbons, creating three dimensional patterns which resemble the facades of contemporary architecture, others are pure and playful variations in design.
Marcia Widenor creates works from raw flax, wood, antique Japanese cloth and string. Her process transforms raw flax into paper or strings and then weaves it into abstracted household objects such as cups, boards, tables, quilts and tents. This exhibition features several of her framed studies, works involving discs and variations of flax and fiber.
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