2015 Size: 51"h x 46"w Price: $3600

Images of indigo-dye spinal columns, x-rays of knees, splashes of light and color.

Process: Contrast these impressions of rough spinal columns and abstract bones with elegant x-rays of my knees. Add splashes and swirls of light and color. Compose in elongated columns.

Materials: Cottons, African tie-dyed ‘spinal column’ fabric, photographic surface for knee x-rays, cotton/ poly batting, cotton texturing threads.

History: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Travelled in a SAQA Global exhibition, “Metamorphosis” for three years. Also exhibited at AQM 2016 (Artist as Quilt Maker 2016); at FAVA (the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts) in Oberlin, OH. It also won Honorable Mention in ABSTRACT - Art Show International Gallery on line. Published in Patchwork Professional, European magazine, May 16-2022.

2012 Size: 54"h x 53"w Price: $3600

Originating is the first of the Agglomerations series, inspired by the documentary video image of Gerhard Richter squeegee-applying color to his paintings. White skips over greens. Reds, blues, yellows streak through the surface. This design emphasizes the dancing movement of the shapes as they flow across the field. Juxtaposing shape to shape and paralleling color to color, I seek to keep the eye moving. It is no accident that the title is an action verb.

Materials: Cotton fabric, cotton/poly batting, texturing threads.

Shows: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In 2015 it was selected for the exhibit "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO. ‘Originating’ was juried into the "World of Threads Festival 2014", in Toronto, Ontario, and into the "Point of View" exhibit, Vanderoth Gallery in Florida. Also in my solo sales display at the KPFA Summer Fair 2016.

2018 Size: 48”h x 34”w Price $1500

The electric excitement we sometimes feel as theater-goers is achieved by actors tapping into their deep emotions, ranging from rage to confusion to ecstasy. The variety and strength of emotions is astounding. The dark framework visible here tries to contain these emotions.

Shows: Exhibited in Fibre Theatricks (a SAQA regional show) at the Harrington gallery, Pleasanton, CA in 2018.

2013 Size: 49"h x 45"w Price: $3200

Very delicate pastel colors seem to disappear as we study them.

Shows: Will be in the Portfolio of bed quilts (for sale) at my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). It has exhibited in the “Sense of Place” exhibition in Art Works Downtown in San Rafael, CA and in "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015

2014 Size: 93" h x 41" w Price: $4900

To me, seeing darkness also means seeing its antagonist … or perhaps its companion … light. The title comes from John Milton's description of hell in "Paradise Lost" -- "No light, but rather darkness visible..."

Materials: cotton and silk fabrics, some hand dyes, batiks, batting, threads. Photo by: Don Tuttle

Juried into the Quilts=Art=Quilts 2016 exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY. It has also exhibited in "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015.

2014 Size: 63" h x 42"w SOLD.

Benthic regions exist on, in or under the sea floor --- from tide pools inshore, out along the continental shelf, to the bottom of the abyss. In these environments a whole ecology of benthos exists, e.g. sponges and clams, starfish, sand dabs, snails, sea worms. Sunlight may penetrate the water. Phytoplankton and air bubbles travel up the water columns; algae drift downwards.

It has exhibited in "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015. Published in Portfolio 22- SAQA's art quilt compendium.

Photo credit: Don Tuttle

2013 Size: 48"h x 33"w SOLD to Salt Lake City Department of Airports.

Shapes, spacing and colors lead to rhythmic tensions in this composition. It’s all about light and movement, scribble and swish.

The hot hues add to the sense of speed, heat, and spice, while the quilting lines wriggle and dance down the canvas.

Toured for two years in the SAQA exhibit "Color Wheel of Emotions". It has also exhibited in "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015.

2017 Size: 9’ x 38 1/2’ SOLD

Accelerating- Decelerating has been “photo-shopped” into an image 9’ High x 38’ 6” Wide. It will be printed on vinyl and applied to what the Salt Lake City International Airport calls a “large scale art wall”. These designated “Whimsy Walls” will appear in 24 restrooms throughout the new airport —- scheduled for completion in 2020. “Each restroom will feature unique vinyl wall wraps created from original artwork, which are intended to create immersive and engaging experiences for travelers.”

2013      Size:  74"w x 94"h                  Price: $8000.

Composing Colors has four repeating grids, with similar shapes and colors in each matrix. These are arranged in suites of bright colors, darks, greyed hues, and neons, as seen in reading order. The agglomeration of shapes to build up a composition also refers to our traditional, historical ways of organizing a quilt pattern.

Juried into Art Quilt Elements, Wayne PA, in 2016. Also "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015. Included in a small solo exhibit of my work featured at the "World of Threads Festival - 2014" in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto. Composing Colors is published in SAQA's Portfolio 21, a compilation of art quilts. Also exhibited at The Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA and at Q=A=Q (Quilts-Art=Quilts) 2013 @ Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY.                       Long arm quilting by Angie Woolman.           

2012 Size: 90"h x 43"w Price: $4900

Extrapolating juggles with repeating forms. Similar shapes and colors reoccur at both top and bottom matrix.

It has exhibited in "Of Line and Color" at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO in 2015; at The Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA; and at Q=A=Q (Quilts-Art=Quilts) 2013 in the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY.

2014       Size: 45"h x 40"w       Price: $1700       A time-lapse view of defragging your computer to move fragmented files --- scattered across the hard drive ---  into contiguous, more efficient, locations.

Exhibited at Texas Quilt Museum's "On the Fringe" show, sponsored by SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates).

2013 Size: 40" h x 26" w SOLD

In Syncopating color and shapes are skipping down the field. A tension develops within the matrix. Curved cutting chops the elements into irregular volumes, changing the tempo of the dance. Light and color streak across the surface like liquid paint stuttering across the canvas.

Shown at the "Structure" exhibit @ ARC Gallery, Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA.

Sold to Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, Massachusetts.

2016       Size: 56"h x 108"w (triptych)     Price: $3000

‘Acrobatics’ is designed in fabric rectangles, elongated pieces, to approximate brushstrokes in color paintings where many bits create an overall look, somewhere between pointillism and impressionism. In this triptych, repeats of printed imagery act as themes and color marks. The clusters interact and form networks of light and color. Panels are distinct in overall coloration, but continuous in format and taches, or strokes, of color and pattern. My focus in this group --- both color and rhythm

Named ‘Acrobatics’, 'Between Acts’ and ‘Tumbling’ these three related panels have sketches in thread, that cross over panel edges to continue into the next piece. The quilting stitches illustrate illusory trapezes, nets, and swinging motions.  

2016    Size: 29"h x 56"w           Not for Sale

"Clinkers" are misshapen bricks that slumped or“exploded” in the kiln, rejected until the Arts and Craft movement in California, rediscovered them. The irregularities were considered natural, organic, exciting. Rescued from discard piles, they were incorporated in chimneys, walls and pillars. Especially as seen in bright overhead sunlight, the darker colors and irregular shapes of clinker bricks brought brick walls alive with movement and interest.

Design challenges are the fertilizer for much of man’s creativity, in quilts as elsewhere in art. Can hard fired clay textures be expressed through fabric piecing and thread texturing? Reflecting, incorporating the light, the shadows and complex, aged colors.

The back of this piece has photographed details of clinker brick walls photographed at a fraternity house in Berkeley CA that wasdesigned by Greene & Greene Architects.