04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Part 2
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Conversations & Eavesdropping, Joyce Paterson, Ukiah CA
Conversations versus Tweets encourage dialogue (and eavesdropping). An unknown scarf designer created an environment for these delightful birds. I liberated them, rearranged them and created new friends and family.
Fused, liberated piecing, piping and free motion quilted on a sit-down machine. Cotton fabric and thread.
NFS
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Rhapsody in Red, Iris Lorenz-Fife, Gualala CA
It has been interesting watching my interests develop, a Japonesque approach after seeing Iris growing in a pond. Executed on my long arm quilting machine.
Silks and polysheen threads
NES
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Wildfire sky, Margaret Lowers Abramshe, Saint George UT
Images of the orange skies over San Francisco inspired me to create this quilt about the earth's changing climate. Scientists agree the earth's temperatures are rising at an alarming rate. I imagined a young boy in a world where an orange sky filled with ash is the norm. The damage from mankind's use of fossil fuels is putting our children's future in peril. Earth needs our attention and our commitment to a sustainable future.
Whole cloth commercially printed from artists' images. Painted with acrylics, pigment sticks, liquid watercolor and other mediums. Free motion and stitched on a stationary machine.
$500
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Cairn Chasm, Karin Lusnak, Albany CA
The spiral with its connotations of growth and natural progression is a favorite motif. I see the spiral pattern not only as a symbol of enlargement but also as a symbol of inclusion. Each one of us is connected to family, to friends, to society and to our world in one enchanting, spiraling dance. Cairn Chasm flowed from my unconscious. My original idea, an ocean view, involved multiple spiraling forms. As this spiral took shape, I could not stop adding to it until it was so large that I felt as if I was falling down a well or moving through a tunnel. For months it remained unfinished on my design wall until one day, I grounded it by adding the blue fabric. Immediately, I was able to complete the piece.
Cotton and silk. Machine pieced. Hand and machine quilted.
$2400
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Color Square #6, Dan Olfe, La Jolla CA
This quilt is part of a series of square quilts that, feature colors used by famous artists. Photoshop was used to create the design using four rectangles of fine color stripes. I obtained the color stripes for this quilt by scanning images of paintings by Joan Mitchell.
Digitally printed whole cloth polyester top, polyester batting, and cotton canvas back. Machine quilted.
$4000
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Hemerocallis: Beauty For A Day, Sally Gould Wright, Los Angeles CA
This gorgeous triple petaled orange day lily was already in our Southern California garden when we moved in over 30 years ago and has continued to bloom every spring/summer since. It has been dug up, divided, replanted several times and still it thrives. Life goes on, things happen, the future is uncertain, but some things in nature you can always count on...
This is a whole cloth quilt painted in acrylic textile paints on PFD cotton, free motion q quilted in silk and polyester threads.
$1200
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
Jewels, Lys Axelson, Big Bear City CA
Scarab beetles are found throughout most ecosystems of the world. My mind and hands went wild interpreting the brilliant natural colors and graphic patterns of these of these beautiful and important insects. Many varieties are endangered due to the loss of their precious habitat and collection by beetle hunters.
Batik and assorted cotton fabric. Seed beads, batting, poly stuffing, variety of cotton, cotton poly and poly threads.
$6000
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Art Quilts 2 at the Mistlin Gallery
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Harvest Moon
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Harvest Moon
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA - Harvest Moon
©04.16.22 Modesto, CA