Eye Spy Magic

Ideas in Cloth

This past month has been another busy one with a solo show @landaugallery and @pamconnollyphoto featuring a series of my Chromatograms and the collaboration with my friend. I wrote about it in @InspirationalArtMagazine.

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A sweltering weekend in Washington, DC was cooled by the delightful exhibits I was encouraged to see in person.  The air conditioning at the Smithsonian didn’t hurt either.

So rarely am I able to come face-to-face with the breadth of art that resides in our National Museums.  From South Carolina, it takes eight hours by car to arrive within viewing distance. Temperatures hit the 100’s last weekend, but we managed to visit three museum buildings which currently honor women’s fiber art.

I won’t say much, except I am always deeply inspired by the textures, colors and atmosphere of these revered spaces and the gems they present. I humbly share the art and the artist’s words.

“I’ve just always loved yarn. I’ve loved paint. I’ve loved anything that could rely on color or just line.”

Emma Amos

“I wanted to see how far I could stretch the fiber and still have it say fiber.”

Claire Zeisler

“The weaving tradition - at least in Latin America- seems inseparable from the concept of sacred landscape…one must ask what landscape is inhabited by the weavers.”

Olga de Amaral

“Embroidery is to sewing what poetry is to prose; the stitches can be made to sing out as words in a poem.”

Mariska Karasz

“Judith’s hands move deftly, without pause…powered by a deep internal vision.”

Joyce Scott, Judith’s sister

“There are very few relationships in which you can share everything and trust that there is going to be support and understanding.”
 Maria Castagliola

“I want these objects to be specific mysteries. They glow and sparkle; you are pulled toward them, compelled to approach and see them.”

Joyce Scott

“I don’t want to go do something I know how to do. I want to go do something I don’t know how to do.”

Shiela Hicks

“I left everything in Chicago. I just brought a couple of things…a refrigerator and my cat and my loom. And I didn’t know whether I’d stay but I stayed. I immediately felt free.”

Lenore Tawney

“[Embroideries] are like symphonies that move and develop and change and contain a lifetime of growth, of power, and tenderness; if sharp contrasts and delicate nuances.”

Marguerite Zorach

“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.”

Miriam Schapiro