Manhattan Quilters Guild
After our last exhibition 40 x 40 @ 40, which celebrated the guild’s 40th anniversary with 40-inch square quilts, the members sought a new exhibition theme that fit their current situation. For many, the enforced isolation of the COVID-19 Pandemic had brought deep reflection and new experimentation with previous techniques and materials. The decision was made to create quilts with titles that begin with a “re,” which often carries such meanings as “again and again” and suggests a look backward while moving forward.
The 19 works included in this new show Rebound – Renew – Reimagine share some common themes, but the individual artists responded in widely different ways to this prompt. This show demonstrates the humbling power of hard times in the hands of dedicated artists. They translated their experiences of loss and grief and separation into artwork that makes us feel revived.
RESILIENCE 2023 40″ x 40″ Poly Crepe de Chine, photo collage, hand quilted Photo Credit: Adi Talwar This quilt combines my fascination with everything beautiful, resilient and unusual, whether created by nature, man-made or a combination of both, with the opportunities that modern technology offers to instantly capture and subsequently combine multiple images into one. […]
RETROSPECTIVE 2023 40″ x 40″ Silk, cotton, wool, metallic, sequins, photo collage, appliqué, hand and machine pieced, hand quilted, hand painted, hand pleated, tucks, prairie points Photo Credit: Adi Talwar The idea for this quilt came to my mind when I was looking through the postcards from my earlier exhibits. I thought how interesting it […]
REINCARNATION 2023 40″ x 40″ Cotton, nylon tulle, vintage recycled textiles: ticking, feed sack, antique Japanese katazome, kasuri, denim, raw silk, remnant from great-grandmother’s scrap collection, machine pieced, hand paper-pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted Photo Credit: Adi Talwar I was inspired by M. C. Escher’s lithograph, Reptiles. When I read that some viewers of […]
RESONATE (MOVEMENT #19) 2023 40″ x 40″ Hand-dyed cotton by the artist, commercial fabric for backing, machine pieced, raw edge fusing, machine quilting Photo Credit: Adi Talwar It is said that the single flutter of butterfly wings is felt around the world. One movement causing another to resonate and evolve taking us on unexpected […]
REVERIE (WEDDING DRESS STUDY #3) 2023 40″ x 40″ Recycled wedding dress, machine pieced, machine quilted Photo Credit: Adi Talwar I hope looking at this piece brings the viewer into a state of peaceful reverie (daydream). My focused repetitive thread work and music practice have become soothing acts of daily meditation which provided a […]
RECOVER 2023 40″ x 40″ Cotton textile, cotton batting and thread, machine pieced, hand and machine quilted, appliqué, digital printing, embroidery Photo Credit: Alan Radom We all react differently to change. Usually I love change as I can sit with it and see where it can take me creatively in my creative process. A […]
REMEMBER 2023 40″ x 40″ Hand-dyed and commercial cottons, cotton foundation, cotton backing, cotton thread embellishment, acrylic netting, raw-edge, machine appliqué, strip piecing, machine quilting, loose thread embellishment stitched by hand and machine, machine stitched binding Photo Credit: Peter C. North I am filled with memories of artists and art instructors who influenced my […]
RECRYSTALLIZE 2023 40″ x 40″ All 100% Asian silks (origin Thailand, China, Japan, India and Nepal), polyester batting, nylon quilting thread, crazy machine piecing, all silks backed with polyester iron-on interfacing Photo Credit: Adi Talwar This quilt is an artistic rendering of recrystallization, the physical process of continuous rearrangement and reorganization at the molecular […]
REBLOOM 2023 40″ x 40″ Cotton fabric, fusible stabilizer, beads, sequins, batting, foam board, hand quilted, machine quilted, trapunto, machine pieced, hand appliqué Photo Credit: Adi Talwar This quilt is the fourth in a series of garden-themed three-dimensional wall quilts. The technical challenge I presented to myself was to construct the floral elements without […]
RENAISSANCE (PATTERNS OF MY HEART 1) 2023 40″ x 40″ Old cotton (aizome), new cotton (aizome and Australian Aboriginal hand-dyed), machine piecing, hand appliqué, embroidery Photo Credit: Yuko Fukui As one grows older changes of weather or feeling are said to have less effect, but for me they stay the same. Whether I am […]
RELEASE ME 2023 40″ x 40″ Polyester organza, beads, mesh tubing, plastic netting, Guatemalan worry doll, Bojagi inspired piecing Photo Credit: Adi Talwar Living through “the” pandemic has taken a toll on all of us in different ways. After 48 years of marriage, my husband passed away in April 2021. Suddenly I found myself […]
REFINISH (KALEIDOSCOPIC XLVI) 2023 40″ x 40″ All cottons designed by Paula Nadelstern, Ultrasuede, hand appliqué, machine pieced and quilted Photo Credit: Adi Talwar This quilt is titled Refinish because I finished it twice. The 24″ center mandala was completed 10 years ago, envisioned as a restrained kaleidoscopic image with more background than figure. […]
REVERBERATIONS 2023 40″ x 40″ Linen dyed with soy milk by the artist, linens, cottons and batik fabrics, embroidery thread, hand and machine appliqué, embroidery, couching, hand quilting Photo Credit: Adi Talwar ‘Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads’ – Mary Oliver Searching […]
REVEAL 2023 40″ x 40″ Cotton, over-dyed cotton; threads, including metallic braid, embroidery floss, and sashiko thread; machine appliqué, machine pieced, and hand quilted Photo Credit: Steve Guttenberg The intense mash-up of people and architecture and signage and sights in a city is a continual visual provocation and delight. A quilt is a perfect metaphor […]
REFOCUS 2023 40″ x 40″ Cyanotype chemicals, cotton fabrics, DMC cotton embroidery thread, Dual Duty thread, batting made of bamboo, silk, cotton, and Tencel. Cyanotype sun printing of foliage and ribbon, machine piecing, hand embroidery as quilting, binding stitched by hand to backing. Photo Credit: Adi Talwar My recent studio work focuses on the […]
REDUX 2023 40″ x 40″ Canvas, cotton cloth, appliqué, machine stitched Photo Credit: Adi Talwar Redux was inspired by the snowy landscape around Arlé’s home during the winter of 2022. In writing about her stitched fiber wall hangings, Arlé stated: “The connection to world events, and climate extremes affecting everything in the natural world, […]
RESTLESS 2023 40″ x 40″ Cotton, felt, nylon, tulle, thread, machine stitched, hand stitched Photo Credit: Adi Talwar Through the challenges of solitude, we may find strength and the power that flows through us… and perhaps the discovery that we are not alone. This quilt began as an abstract expressionist experiment with color fields, […]
RECOLLECTIONS 2023 40″ x 40″ Hand-dyed cotton and silk, machine piecing and quilting Photo Credit: Adi Talwar In creating this quilt, I recall the special color language my mother, daughter and I created together. As the dappled fall light would flash by our car windows on autumnal drives, we were struck by the awe-inspiring […]
REPOSE (QUILT DRAWING #28) 2023 40″ x 40″ Silk whole cloth, cotton backing, poly filling, cotton, metallic thread, hand embroidered, hand quilted Photo Credit: Adi Talwar My work is about beauty and fine design within a minimalist manner. Recent quilts are a visual response to my rich interior life of study and reflection amid […]
