2018 Size: 43"high x 63"wide Price: $4000

Impressions of ‘racehorses’ legs as they thunder past. Complex colors and patterns mix with an explosive movement down the canvas. This art quilt is one of an activity-packed series called “Racing”.

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

Shows: Was in the Portfolio of art quilts for sale at my Solo Show called “Nancy Bardach – 25 Quilts”.  This exhibit hung in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023) in California.  Also exhibited in 2019 at QBL (Quilting by the Lake).

2018 Size: 44"h x 62"w Price: $4500.

These abstract forms are based on a Navaho rug in a Denver museum entitled “Lightening”. I admire its yellow ‘strikes ‘woven against a deep red background. A more dark-sky interpretation here employs dark blue and high contrast.

One of my activity-packed series called ‘Racing’, trying to capture full-on movement.

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

Shows: Was in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Exhibited at QBL 2019, Quilting by the Lake, under the name “Bolt from the Blue”.

2018 Size: 60” x 38” SOLD

Ocean levels and surf are rising dangerously. Climate changes are threatening to all. Whether urban seawalls collapse or beaches for sea lions and elephant seals erode, human beings suffer and lose.

2014 Size: 40h x 24w Price: $2900

Glittering light reflecting off wing segments; deep dark background with sunlight shining through branches. Inspired by the wings of a red dragonfly, a Flame Skimmer, a Cardinal Meadowhawk (common in Monterey County; so intensely red that they almost seem unreal), or just a plain old Red Darter.

Materials: Cotton fabrics, and a commercial cotton print from a blind Mexican artist named George Mendoza, created for Westminster fabrics line “Art of Opportunity”; also batting, and texturing threads.

Shows: Was hanging in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). “After Dark 7” at Greg Moon Art Taos, NM, 2018.

2019 Size: 64” x 12”    Price: $2900

In reading this poem, I remembered studying a dense bamboo forest next to the Li River in China. It blocked out the sunlight and felt looming, a bit dangerous. Here, the poet’s gate is a shadowy bit of light near the height of the bamboo.

“Grasses bury the Riverbank,

Rain darkens the village.

The temple is lost in tall bamboo ---

I cannot find the gate.”

-Su Tung-po (1037-1101)

Materials: Cottons, inc. hand dyes, African; batting, Pellon; texturing threads. Machine piecing, machine-stitched texture.

Shows: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). It was in “Momentary and Timeless” San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 2019; also in the “Bamboo/ Haiku show”, Mission College, Santa Clara, California in March 2020, and at Twin Pines Center for the Arts in the Manor House in Belmont, 2022.

2019 Size: 38”h x 43”w Price $3600

Golden poppies for the Golden State, floating in their multitudes along the roads and in our gardens every Spring. But if we look into the velvety center, it consumes all our view. Delicate looking petals, hardy and strong in wind and rain. Perhaps they reflect the strength, beauty and softness of the place we live in as well.

Materials: Cotton fabrics including hand-dyes; cotton/ poly batting, texturing threads.

Shows: Shows: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Juried into 2020 International Quilt Festival/Houston, “Hands All Around” theme; shown only online due to pandemic. Published in Patchwork Professional, German magazine, May 16-2022.

2012           Size:  83"h x 83"wide (king size bed)         Price:  $7500.

Strong gestural movements reacting to the light, the wind, and the flames.  Inspired by powerful black oil stick drawings by Richard Serra, seen in SF MOMA.

Photograph: Don Tuttle, Emeryville CA.   

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). Also in New Quilts of Northern California at Pacific International Quilt Festival in 2013 and in "That's a Quilt", a SAQA exhibit within the S.F. Quilt Guild's annual show in 2015.

2018 Size: 60”h x 38” w SOLD.

Rising seas caused by climate change are threatening to all. Whether urban seawalls collapse or beaches for sea lions and elephant seals erode, human beings suffer and lose. We seem to be surfing uphill in our current battle to avert this tragic future.

This piece is one of my activity-packed series called Racing.

2020 Size: 29”h x 35”w Price: $1500

Serra IV continues an early series exploring the strong gestural sweeping of hand and arm through space. As a forceful sketch it has many references: Serra’s work, the Sierras, Burnt Sienna, Stonehenge, amphitheater seating . . . Materials: cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, batiks, batting, threads. Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting; machine piecing & quilting.

2018 Size: 28"h x 36"w Price $1500.

Serra II is one of my series exploring the strong, gestural sweep of hand and arm through space. Texturing stitches emphasize the motion. As a forceful sketch it has many references: Richard Serra's work, the Sierras, amphitheater seating, Stonehenge, a hurricane.

2018 Size: 59”h x 37”w Price: $3000

Serra III is one of ann early series exploring the strong gestural sweeping of hand and arm through space. As a forceful sketch it has many references: Serra’s work, the Sierras, Burnt Sienna, Stonehenge, amphitheater seating . . . Materials: cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, batiks, batting, threads. Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting; machine piecing & quilting.

2015 Size: 64"h x 140" wide SOLD

Statement: Travelling towards a future life … leaving behind you an eternity of emptiness. Sea deep and ocean wide are the perils confronting migrants of all ages, no matter how or what we actually fled. This piece speaks not only of sorrow, regrets, dangerous oceans, traversing dark spaces, but rather, of aspiration, arrival, inner joy attained.

Sold in 2018 to the City of Hayward for permanent public display in a 2nd floor lobby of the Hayward Library’s new main branch. Conceived originally for an exhibition called "Stories of Migration" at the Textile Museum, Washington D.C. in April-September 2016.

2013      Size: 30"h x 35"w                                    Price: $1400.

These are the forces that tear our world apart, with a roar.  Fierce, trembling motion and chunks of fear.

Awarded Honorable Mention in "Expressionism" exhibit at the Lyceum Gallery, San Diego, CA. Also shown at The Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA in 2014 and at the "Contemporary Expressionism" show in the Lyceum Gallery, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego.                                                   

2008    82"w x 56"h                                               Price: $6000.

Spotlighting brightens dancers' skirts as they swirl across the stage. They recede in spatial perspective and into the darkness.

Shown at Paducah (American Quilter's Society Show in Kentucky) in 2009; and at the Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA, 2014.  Published in the LARK book of "500 Traditional Quilts" and on tour for three years.

Photo credit: Don Tuttle, Emeryville, CA.                                      

2008 Size: 63"h x 44"w SOLD.

Free hand curved cutting, machine pieced, both machine- and hand- quilted. Exhibited for one plus years in the touring SAQA exhibit "I'm Not Crazy". Shown at The Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA.

2013 Size: 41"h x 30"w Price: $1500

Liquid movement both diagonal and horizontal. Exhibited now in a SAQA exhibit, “Stitching California” at the Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA and traveling to other venues until 2023. It also appeared at The Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA and in "Reflections" (SDMAAG exhibit) at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, San Diego.

2012     Size: 45"h x 42"w   Blowing in the wind and sun.   SOLD.

2016    Size: 34” x 24” w    SOLD.

  Water moves mysteriously over land forms.  Iridescent color slicks the surface. In the depths, biota thrive at their stable, microscopic level. Oozing water textures the wetlands.                    

2015 Size: 22"h x 17" w SOLD.

Dark lake, complex land forms, vegetation --- aspiring upwards through the storms. Expressive hand-dyed cotton fabrics mix with prints, silk, and batiks to create an image of a night.

2014 Size: 34”h x 50”w SOLD.

Dappled depicts the effect of sunlight streaming through both mature trees and under story trees and shrubs.

Exhibitions: It was juried into the “Go Wild! (National Parks- Wilderness Act 50th Anniversary)” a 2014 on-line exhibit sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, http://www.rmqm.org. Dappled was also hung in “How Does Your Garden Grow?” Art Quilts 2014 at the Whistler Museum in Lowell, MA. http://www.whistlerhouse.org.

2013       Approx. 44"h x 22"w      Two summer images in a vertical panel ... pieces of mulit-colored Swiss chard scattered casually on a table.   Not for Sale; owned by friends of the Artist.

2014 Size: 30"h x 50"w SOLD.

Sold to The Alameda County Arts Commission for public exhibition.

2014Size: 31"h x 40"w SOLD.

Serra I initiates a new series exploring the strong, gestural sweep of hand and arm through space. As a forceful sketch it has many references: Richard Serra's work, the Sierras, Burnt Sienna, Stonehenge, amphitheater seating, rusted Corten steel.

Sold to The Alameda County Arts Commission for public exhibition.