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Rachael Dorr is a textile artist who works to create rich textures using her hand woven fabrics, recycled materials and a long arm quilting machine. Primarily using white fabrics & threads her pieces draw the viewer in closer to study the precise rich detail of her work. website: rachael dorr.com e-mail: rachael_dorr@yahoo.com
After the Storm201120″ x 20″ A graduate of Moscow Textile Institute, Ludmila Aristova came to fiber art after a career in fashion design. Her “painting palette” consists of fabric and thread combined to create smooth color and design transitions within an abstract format. Her use of varied fabric textures produces a color spectrum ranging from […]
Freedom from Hunger: Cabbage and Potatoes201082″ x 73″ Teresa Barkley makes quilts that are the synthesis of many influences: vintage fabrics and postage stamps, a career in patternmaking, and heirloom scrapbooks. With each quilt, she combines materials that were never intended to be joined, such as conventional quilt fabrics and found object fabrics: flour sacks, […]
Units 21: Jungle Fever38″ x 38″2010 benedictecaneill@gmail.comwww.benedictecaneill.com
Chasms 22 2014 45” x 32.5” Quilt National 2015 Beth Carney is a New York fiber artist whose background as a dancer brings a special quality to her art quilts. She works in an improvisational manner, exploring line, shape, color and motion to create compositions that dance. Working in abstract forms and self-dyed fabrics allow […]
Running Wild201225″ x 41″ My work in graphic design and painting, plus a lifetime of drawing and stitching inform the shape and content of my quilts. The imagery is abstract, influenced by a love of plant life, landscape and a full range of color. I enjoy working in a series, currently the concept of journeys, […]
Rainy Season199068″ x 74″ Iris Gowen has lived and travelled in four continents over the past fifty years. Her quilts are designed and constructed of fabrics found and collected. Individually they speak of locations, collectively they work together to create worlds and images which explore boundaries between unlikely combinations. Iris manipulates fabrics by making associations, […]
1st Days of Spring201116″ x 23″ Tatiana Ivina graduated as a textile designer from Stieglitz State academy of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. She entered the Russian Artists Union and participated in many group shows and numerous solo exhibits in Russia, Germany, Norway, and Finland. After coming to the United States, Tatiana continued to work […]
Solar City II20” x 70”photo by D. James Dee Pairing contemporary topics with traditional quilt patterns, Katherine Knauer prints much of the fabric she uses with images of environmental concern or war. This juxtaposition of dynamic surface imagery and a medium most often associated with comfort and warmth imbues her quilts with personal meaning and […]
Torn Apart 2014 54” x 33” Born in Switzerland, Ruth Marchese grew up exposed to her father’s extensive collection of oriental rugs, which sparked her fascination with colors and the infinite variations of textiles. Self-taught and inspired by the endless possibilities of using scraps of fabric to produce warm and functional objects, she made her […]
KALEIDOSCOPIC XLI: The Prague Spanish Synagogue Ceiling 2018 64” W X 79” L Photography: Jean Vong As soon as I looked up at the Prague Spanish Synagogue Ceiling in 2014, I knew I’d found a quilt idea. I am a Patternista, hardwired to see pattern everywhere. Here was a glut of architectural designs bumping into each […]
Façade200628″ x 38″ Diana Goulston Robinson graduated from Sydney’s National Art School and worked in textile print design studios in London & Paris. Her recent quilts are inspired by the interplay of sunlight on city structures, particularly the reflections in walls and windows of glass. She sees in each pane a tiny fluid landscape. In […]
Buzzing/Flying 2003 67″ x 93″ Collection of the artist Language, particularly as found in the urban environment, provides a rich source of inspiration for my quilts. The use of written symbols in my work balances an appreciation of their abstract beauty with the desire to include the “found art” of relevant texts. However, since the […]
Kimono Form 4: LIFE HAZARD / MIDAS TOUCH201380” H (variable) x 54” W x 4”D Most artists find imagery first, then words. Not the case with these most recent Kimono Form Political pieces,that have held my attention for almost a year, each informing the next on construction possibilities. Creating art in any form often […]
Somebody Lives Here” 15″H x 25″W Kim Svoboda has fallen in love with fabric, fibers and thread. In her words: “My work explores traditional techniques such as kantha, sashiko, and embroidery in contemporary ways. But, not to be pinned down, I also bring my art background as a printmaker and painter to draw and paint […]
Tracings 2019 34″ x 34″ My work is a personal narrative, weaving imprinted images retrieved from childhood, nature and present events. I also reference journal pages and photos in order to create art that explores themes of memory, loss, fragility and strength. My art becomes a visual map of my life’s journey. As a young child I […]
Quilt Drawing 13 for Maureen201346.5″ x 39″ Daphne Taylor’s Quilt Drawing series honors her love of drawing and painting. Lines reminiscent of landscape and figure are embroidered, pieced and composed within frameworks ranging from wide open spaces to complex colored fields. The rich visual language of these lines and markings is influenced and restrained by […]
Smile201152.5″ x 58.5″ For many years Emiko Loeb has had a career divided between the US and her native Japan, with teaching and frequent exhibitions in both countries, as well as workshops in Switzerland, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. More than half of her 85 quilts are reversible log cabin quilts using techniques she […]
The Space Between Heartbeats 2019 47″ X 57″ Victoria Findlay Wolfe is a New York City based artist/quilter, born and raised on a farm in Minnesota, whose work focuses on combining her grandmother’s traditional influence and her modern perspective to quilt making. Trained as a painter, Victoria works with textiles the same way she paints. […]
