Gallery
Jun 15th, 2009 Posted in | Comments OffRecent Work
“Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?”
2008
Approx 30×30 inches. Art quilt created for the Textile Center Project Patchwork IKEA Challenge. Read my essay about this project at Whipup.net. This piece was on tour with the Textile Center’s exhibition at the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo 2009-2010. It has been purchased and is now in a private collection.
Sexual Revolution
2008
In so many ages and so many places, a young girl is considered the property of her father, brothers, or husband. She is not given the opportunity to study and pursue a dream, but is expected to marry and have children or become a commodity to trade for family status and prestige. My experience has been very different. This piece is a wish for all young girls to experience the freedom that I have enjoyed by growing up in the time and place that I did. In this piece, I used the idea of fertility to represent that freedom, because it is used as a symbol in many cultures. Acorns, snakes, elephants, lotus blossoms, rice, pine cones, frogs and pomegranates are all motifs embroidered and woven in to textiles used to wish fertility to a new bride. In the style of “Space Invaders”, a video game representing my place and time in history, the girl in the picture is shooting down these symbols. The number 1960 is the date that the birth control pill was approved. The letters RSR are my initials. Hand embroidered with hand-stitched appliqué. Cotton threads and fabric. Exhibited as part of “Freedom: The Fiber of our Nation”, September 2008 Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery.
“Dueling Oboes”, Lane Stitch Beadwork sample for workshop presentation
“Intersect”
2010. Handdyed fabric. Pieced and hand embroidered.
On exhibit at Minneapolis Institute of Arts March-June 2010
Self Portait: “Me Again”
Hand-embroidered. Cotton thread on cotton fabric.
5.5 inches. 2010.
On exhibit at Science Museum of London “Stitch Yourself” gallery, June 2010 – ?
