Quilts at Carlsbad gallery 05-19-21

On Tuesday I drove to Carlsbad to see the exhibit at the Cannon Gallery of a SAQA traveling exhibit.  Worth the drive!  My friend Carol went along and we met Deb and Andrea there.  Including the four of us there were about twelve ladies there; we all wore masks and tried to keep away from each other.  Hard to do when we are all concentrating on the quilts and the signs.  The gallery is only open on Tuesday and Thursday  11am to 5pm and the exhibit closes on May 23rd.  The exhibit has been traveling around the USA for four years.  This may be its last venue. 

Material Pulses: Seven Viewpoints

"Momentum"  Christine Mauersberger  9' tall, 10' deep, 8' wide

To me this is an installation, but not a quilt.  It is layered red plastic strips sewn lengthwise onto netting.  The artist has supplied a explanatory poster with actual fabric pieces one can touch.  The magical thing about this is the cast shadows.

 

Jane Willoughby (two-sided quilt),  two pieces by Elizabeth Brandt

From her "Falling Apart" series,  80" square. 

(detail)

The flowing patterns you see are the very close together quilting lines done in different thread colors. 

Image on the right shows the other side of the quilt.  The gallery attendant will white glove the back if requested.  I imagine the artist wanted these quilts hung this way, but it is too bad they couldn't be hung perpendicular to the wall.

The complex houses several other city offices, including the Carlsbad Library and there is a large patio area with seating and tables.

Andrea, Carol, and Deb waiting for Del.

Great chairs and comfortable. 

We had lunch at Beach Plum Kitchen in the nearby shopping complex.  Good food, great service, tent with well spaced tables.  

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Pictures tomorrow 09-17-20

The exhibit "Southern California Quilts" at Oceanside Museum of Art is WONDERFUL.  Today was the opening day for the museum which has been closed by the pandemic.  Hopefully it will stay open, but it the Covid-19 cases increase the State will close things down again.  So, if you can, make a reservation and so see the exhibit as soon as you can.  

oma-online.org

Here is just one of the 35 quilts on display.

Measures 21" L X 43" W   

Quilt "Calm in Chaos" by Del 02-17-19

I'll be driving up to Pacific Grove this week to deliver and hang an exhibit at Back Porch Fabrics.  This group of quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection is

 "People and Critters". 

 Unlike last year's "Birds" exhibit, I don't have enough people or critters to fill the gallery.  So, this will be a mixed show.  

As has been my practice with these exhibits there will be some of my own quilts also.    Three of my people quilts will be included, two self portraits and one of my late husband.  You may be familiar with the one shown here as it is my online photo.  The background is composed of cuttings from many previous fused projects, creating the chaos that sometimes invades our lives. I made this in 2005 and my life is not so chaotic now and I am not so calm when it gets chaotic.   Now that I am old!

The quilts will hang in Back Porch Fabrics, 157 Grand Avenue at Central, Pacific Grove, CA, from Feb 22 until May 8, 2019, so they will be up for all the sessions of Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar Conference Center.  

I hope you will have a chance to visit the shop during that time.  

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Red & White Quilts in New York 04-27-11

I don't know how many times I have looked at these images. There are so many quilts (651) that I have to spend a lot of time looking at each slide. There are "famous" quilts that we have seen in magazines and books, it is nice to know that they are cherished and cared for, but there are also quilts I imagine have rarely been displayed. Maybe because they are not spectacular, but more likely because there are limited venues for displaying quilts. I draw your attention to a few I think are special: the red and white "stripy" in slide #4; the airplane quilt on the upper left of slide #3; the interesting combination of stars, bars and hearts in the center of slide #2. I'd love to know more about the redwork embroidery quilt in slide #5 - labels from flour? chicken feed? derived from fruit packing boxes? - history in thread. I wonder about the anonymous (mostly) women who imagined these designs and wielded their needles and sewing machines to create such beauty; they worked with poor light and limited time and, sometimes, had hopes of recognition, probably at the county fair. It is particularly wonderful that the collector, Joanna Rose, had the desire, the eye and the money to assemble such a fabulous view of quilts in red and white. I wish I could have seen this exhibit - all those wonderful quilts "in-the-fabric", but I wonder if I might not just have swooned away at the sight.



http://www.dnainfo.com/20110324/upper-east-side/quilts-take-over-park-avenue-armory

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Quilts to make your heart sing! 03-09-11

I just picked this up from Lesley Riley's newsletter. Just seeing the first picture made me want to pack my bag and book a flight! WOW! what a sight this would be to remember all the rest of my life. But it isn't possible. I hope some of you can go and will tell us all about it. Del


http://poppygall.com/blog/2011/03/03/design-inspiration-red-white-quilts/