Rebound
2020 Size: 43”h x 30”w Price: $3600
Heavy shapes, dense colors. Lockdowns of 2020. Lives under duress, we strive to move on. Hoping to emerge from Covid-19 pandemic, we imagine our dearly-hoped-for upward rebound.
Materials: cottons, batting, texturing threads.
Shows: “Radical Regeneration” exhibition at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 2022; “New Quilts of Northern California” display at the Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2021.
Social Distancing 2
2020 Size: 55”h x 41”w Price: $1800
Broken up into our private lives, boxed in, thrown a wrench, knocked sideways. Quarantine, lockdown, separation from our lives, our friends, ourselves. Can we express this tough situation in color, shapes, symbols? Mood: grim in places. Lockdown: not quite dire. Look at (the few) silver linings.
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).
Sideways - Torii Gate
2020 Size: 98”h x 47”w Price: $5000
Divided into our private lives, different colors, shapes and symbols. Our regular routines knocked sideways. Quarantined, separated from our lives, our friends, ourselves. We try to express this tough situation. I begin by framing this quilt as a Japanese tori gate. As a tori gate symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred, it is an appropriate image as we enter a contemplative time and place during lockdown.
Shows: given a Gold Award at NOOBAA 2023 at 3 Square Art gallery show in Fort Collins, juried by David Reif.
Bending the Curve
2020 Size: 61”h (varies) x 84” w Price: $6000
Imagery of compression and looming dark holes combine with placid Amish patterns. Old and new collide. I created this art quilt in edgy times, during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. “Bending the Curve” speaks to hospitalization overload, testing curves and to curves reflecting the pandemic’s economic impacts.
Contagion 1
2020 Size: 94” h x 34” w SOLD
In “Contagion” shapes intersect one another, collide and splay out, expressing our fears of contagion. Looming shapes meet those cut up into smaller, complicated pieces. Bold black blocks meet whites with germ-like graphics. The stark black and white world is shot through with wriggling white and gold threads. Julia Bryan-Wilson, in her book “Fray” asked “Do textiles emerge with intensity in times of disaster?” Her answer is that they “live at the edge of crises,” in the fray. “Contagion” is the edge.
Elbow Kiss
2020 Size: 44” x 44” Price: $3000
Elbow kissing (bumping) cants people a little sideways, wing-like arm waving in the air, an awkward but friendly gesture. In Covid-19 times, we each try to perfect our elbow kiss and our mask smile. This quilt incorporates an old-fashioned square by Anonymous.
Masks for PPE
2020 Made with two layers, fits over an N95. Pattern designed by a nurse for use in the very beginning of the pandemic. I made about 50 masks to donate, as did sewing participants all over the country.