http://nancybardach.com/abstracts-in-motion daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1736891410350-SQM38UOY9Z8M92DY0K4V/Bardach_Nancy_Galloping_43h+x+63w.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Galloping 2018 Size: 43"high x 63"wide Price: $3500 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1736891410350-SQM38UOY9Z8M92DY0K4V/Bardach_Nancy_Galloping_43h+x+63w.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Galloping 2018 Size: 43"high x 63"wide Price: $3500 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693977062272-P7IW25OGUEQV0RSNIL57/Bardach_Nancy_Bolt+From+the+Blue_full.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Shazam 2018 Size: 44"h x 62"w Price: $4500. These abstract forms are based on a Navaho rug in a Denver museum entitled “Lightening”. Its yellow flashes were woven against a deep red background. This quilt, more of a dark-sky interpretation, employs deep dark blues and high contrast. Here, abstraction has its most effective impact. The lightening strikes, sharp and bright against the dark sky. Piecing yellow and gold with white adds jagged-electric impressions. Size of the lightening bolts and the white tracery of texturing threads add more movement. This art quilt is as wide as a woman’s height, inviting you to see and feel the flashes. 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”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1672210467745-ZZ8XH7RGOUPL4JSCZIP0/California+Dreaming_38%2522+high+x+43%2522+wide+.JPG Abstracts in Motion - California Dreaming 2019 Size: 38”h x 43”w SOLD 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693164848652-H8IVOD8GQRLZQ8OWG5AF/NB_Lost.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Lost in Tall Bamboo 2019 Size: 64” x 12” Price: $1200 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: Was in an exhibit at Arts Benecia in 2024 and 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712090222391-YR2ZTAHXJ4VP6JUNQA0J/Screen+Shot+2021-10-06+at+5.03.28+PM.png Abstracts in Motion - Rising Tides 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1375313007935-WCW2D4W2PXV07435JQ0Q/Ignition.2.g.jpg Abstracts in Motion - Ignition 2012 Size: 83"h x 83"wide (queen size bed) Price: $5000. Strong gestural movements reacting to the light, the wind, and the flames. Inspired by powerful black oil stick drawings by Richard Serra, seen in a SF MOMA exhibition. Photograph: Don Tuttle, Emeryville CA. Shows: Was 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1666748426839-MCQG0UOR3BFDUGO0ELNZ/P1150577.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Dragonfly's Wing 2014 Size: 40h x 24w Price: $550 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1488940791779-R1KM4I3PNWEOMLIF9J9F/Bardach_Nancy_Incurvate+and+Excurvate_full.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Incurvate and Excurvate 2016Size: 21”h x 42”wPrice: $550   Leaves or plates overlapping in space form an interesting figure-ground image. Layering the shapes and accenting their shade/ shadows in threads highlights the physical volumes. These forms derive from the stretched fabric used in long-lived roof structures for outdoor amphitheaters. They are also reminiscent of a layered array of Richard Serra's steel plates.     Write here... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693977320252-5W3CQHXY73XVFCYPKMMU/IMG_3329.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Rising Tides 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641687689867-5COUL6LKXA3WCXXDP28W/Serra+IV+-+final.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Serra IV 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1674947182492-IHB2TNZA6BIVNSIKQ228/Bardach_Nancy_Serra+II_+full.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Serra II 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1608680005062-O9A7097LQDR7T1OIIVQV/Serra+III+-+final.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Serra III 2018 Size: 59”h x 37”w Price: $3000 Serra III is one of a series exploring the strong sweeping of hand and arm through space. Doubled, it moves again and again through curving gestures. As a forceful sketch it has many references: Richard Serra’s oil stick drawings, the Sierras, Burnt Sienna, Stonehenge, amphitheater seating . . . Materials: cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, batiks, batting, threads. Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting; machine piecing & quilting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1449122091408-37RI9L6R6WXNA27GBOMD/Nancy+Bardach+-+A+Song+of+Ascent+-+full.jpg Abstracts in Motion - A Song of Ascent 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1666748615295-TF0U0QCCW4QY4SQGUVMJ/IMG-1090.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Song of Ascent - installation view - case designed by building architects, Noll & Tam of Berkeley. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469511199622-YF6JE99JS5MGA2UU600G/P1190694.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Wetlands Meandering 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, where worlds meet. Recently displayed on a billboard in Times Square, March 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1375311364235-28L7VJ6LN4BSZ01ODYZ2/P1130394.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Fault Lines I 2013 Size: 30"h x 35"w SOLD 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1375312153561-OZ4N25LOH77QP4DMD4EP/Oh%21+Rock-A-My+Soul%21.2.no+silo.jpg Abstracts in Motion - Oh! Rock-a My Soul! (or Revelations) 2008 82"w x 56"h Price: $5000. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390849136695-CG5C6831KTNPSDBOVQE1/P1090553.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Running Through 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1400908674769-1CDJ9QQRKWMSS1T2YID6/P1160496.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Genesis (or Headphone Gal) 2014 Size: 41"h x 34"w Price: $700 This piece appears to be a portrait, winking. Or two giant half spheres exploding apart. Based on the traditional "Wagon Wheel' or "Spider's Web" pattern, changing up the scale and arrangements of the motif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1773880198736-LZRPF9UITGIW57J6MD02/P1220449.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Flowing 2 2013 Size: 41"h x 30"w Price: $1000 Liquid movement both diagonal and horizontal. Exhibited in a SAQA exhibit, “Stitching California” at the Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA and traveled 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729036591-YBMCINM2TIRUQ2501OP2/Flowing.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Flowing I 2012 Size: 45"h x 42"w Blowing in the wind and sun. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1451690002666-F7RGOHFC4F5QSOR0G2J7/Bardach_Ad+Astra.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Ad Astra 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1449274845567-9NP8ZS8UDFS4OSBJ70KO/P1170277.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Dappled 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390785683350-KKHY5K2XP4O3NKNMO6SF/swiss+chard.jpg Abstracts in Motion - Swiss Chard 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390805377272-CRCWP721PD6E8ULF2XM9/P1160052.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Silhouette 2014 Size: 30"h x 50"w SOLD. Sold to The Alameda County Arts Commission for public exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1449274758688-H8EW4RRM4Z8B6YA2HNKR/P1180019.JPG Abstracts in Motion - Serra I 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. http://nancybardach.com/mobiles-and-stabiles daily 0.75 2018-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729116156-JJ83L08C9YUQYEQ9CJMI/Slant+Rhymes+bamboo.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes I: 'grace' and 'chaste' 2014 Size: 60"h x 36"w Price: $1400 Figures reminiscent of human body, floating in bamboo frame. Each element is double-sided, see details. Shown at the exhibit "Liturgical & Sacred Art", Springfield, Illinois 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729116156-JJ83L08C9YUQYEQ9CJMI/Slant+Rhymes+bamboo.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes I: 'grace' and 'chaste' 2014 Size: 60"h x 36"w Price: $1400 Figures reminiscent of human body, floating in bamboo frame. Each element is double-sided, see details. Shown at the exhibit "Liturgical & Sacred Art", Springfield, Illinois 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1378843609669-JH39PFWBGAR71O3QCACL/Slant+Rhymes_detail.jpg.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes I, detail 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1378843576365-SXIQIJQHHTM2X73GMHUC/P1100176.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes I, detail 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1378842624866-YE83UJWTSLSDEN2I5LFK/B.Bardach.Nancy.Slant+Rhymes+II.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes II: "revolve" and "dissolve" 2014 Size: 60"h x 36"w Price: $1400 Echoing colors and shapes mimic the human figure. Free moving compositions, textured with stitching going through both sides, and incorporating free-hanging threads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1378843588247-FT3JC6JN5JM6ZNQZTQIU/P1140572.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes II, detail 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1378843598973-ZKBFT1SYGOZ5EX182QZT/P1140573.JPG Mobiles - Slant Rhymes II, detail 2 http://nancybardach.com/representational daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1488940436406-RNJN6K7U1GMM547O4VPB/Bardach_Nancy_Aztec+Altar_full.JPG Representational - Aztec Altar 2016 Size: 31"h x 23"w Price: $950 A stepped-stone Aztec altar has solidity and strength. Within their enclosed garden courtyard at Casa Azul in Mexico City, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo displayed pre-Columbian sculptures, cacti and other plants. The altar’s heavy stone shapes remind one of the strictures, both physical and social, Frida Kahlo worked against Frida’s home and studio in Mexico City, the Casa Azul, is in Coyoacan, an historical Spanish residential area, filled with elegant homes. Materials: Cotton, some hand dyed, marbelized, shibbori dyed; batting, texturing and embroidered thread lines. Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). It was exhibited in "Forty Fridas" at Jingletown Art Studios, Oakland, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1488940436406-RNJN6K7U1GMM547O4VPB/Bardach_Nancy_Aztec+Altar_full.JPG Representational - Aztec Altar 2016 Size: 31"h x 23"w Price: $950 A stepped-stone Aztec altar has solidity and strength. Within their enclosed garden courtyard at Casa Azul in Mexico City, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo displayed pre-Columbian sculptures, cacti and other plants. The altar’s heavy stone shapes remind one of the strictures, both physical and social, Frida Kahlo worked against Frida’s home and studio in Mexico City, the Casa Azul, is in Coyoacan, an historical Spanish residential area, filled with elegant homes. Materials: Cotton, some hand dyed, marbelized, shibbori dyed; batting, texturing and embroidered thread lines. Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). It was exhibited in "Forty Fridas" at Jingletown Art Studios, Oakland, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1710484573691-ZD7KGP4EJO66YLMPZS9F/Bardach_Nancy_AdInfinitum_75h+x+45w.jpg Representational - Ad Infinitum 2015 Size: 75” h x 45” w Price: $7500 Onto infinity. Past, present and future tents --- the interrupted lives of migrant refugees. Somber colors and dark surroundings reflect dire conditions. Relatively more colorful doorways and people lingering beyond open flaps suggest continuing light and hope within. Materials: Machine pieced cotton, some marbelized with textile paint, woven Japanese wool and rayon fabrics; batting; texturing threads and cotton thread for the embroidery lines. Shows: Juried into "Stories of Migration" at The Textile Museum in Washington D.C. in 2016. Also in a semi-solo show called “Mistakes, Deconstruction and Surprises” at the Osher Marin JCC in 2021 and in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712090416485-2BQ87Z3YUGZYVKH1FINJ/IMG_3672.JPG Representational - Tiger in Tall Grass 2019 Size: 23” x 34” Price: $1800 This version is an image inspired by a Chinese woodcut of a tiger stalking in tall grass. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night….” - William Blake (1794). Materials: Cotton solids, silks, batiks, batting, threads. Machine piecing, machine-stitched texture. Shows: Was hanging at the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In “AQM XIX” at Fava Gallery, Oberlin OH, 2022; in the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; published in SAQA Portfolio 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729450192-LUKN5VWZD6QJ2ML04ZPK/Love+Birds.jpg Representational - Love Birds (Guinea Hens) 2008 Size: 52"w x 49"h Price: $2400 African creatures on land, in the sea and in the sky. Hand quilted; batting, texturing threads and cottons include African "trade cloth" batiks. Embellished with many beads and a few buttons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390848574936-INBV8OLF9DS1F7X7P7YY/Summertimes_full_2010_65x75.jpg Representational - Summertimes 2010 Size: 65"h x 75"w Price: $3500 Various barns --- at dawn, morning, noon and evening. A four part composition, with shadows and shading according to the times of day. 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1490153574844-MQ6BCK76200H678K6QDA/Bardach-Nancy-What+Did+We+Fear-full.JPG Representational - Horizon with Risk 2014 Size: 20" x 20" Price: $750. From a high school window, a World War II era oil tank looms. Only the German bombs were missing. Techniques and Materials: Free-hand curve cutting, applique, machine piecing, machine quilting. Cotton and silk fabrics, cotton batting, texturing threads. Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Shown in the “WWII Home Front” exhibit at Voices in Cloth, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, CA, 2014, and traveled for 2 years to museums and other public locations around Northern California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1394068216876-RCKJ0UYVCVD46664VSUN/GifttoCityFull.JPG Representational - Gift to the City 2015 Size: 20"h x 24" w SOLD. Reflected in the water, a light sculpture by Leo Villareal plays on the cables of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Many different lighting patterns flow across the four spans and re-appear in the water. Pinpoints (LEDs) are streaming in sequences, images of beauty . . . it’s the Bay Bridge Lights. Orange lights at the horizon illuminate the working Port of Oakland. Their reflections also glow in the Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1394068228458-PZR46IOFXXBA3DN7K8HU/FogFull.JPG Representational - Fog 2014 20"h x 24"w Muted lighting effects on the Bridge cables tonight. Their reflections glisten in the Bay. And at the Port of Oakland shoreline, mercury vapor lights reflect their orange glow into the sky. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1527300758436-S76317DJDXQIOIDH9D1A/P1220065-001.JPG Representational - Ode to Joy (the Professor in his Study) 2018 Size: 33”w x 74”h Price: $2000 Beethoven and the Professor ponder. Flowing juniper trees in the windows beyond the bookshelves --- singing a song to the Study that Joy Built. Why the frowns? What distracts the two from their intellectual pursuits? Those fruits and vegetables --- it’s hunger. My husband asks: Q: What do professors think about all day in their studies? A: If food is in the frieze, is it frozen? Do I have a book about 'The Ode to Soy'? And, if I'm always inside; why the tie? Juried in 2019 into a Global SAQA Global exhibition called “Season After Season”, it traveled for 3 years to multiple venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1528670979909-BZ1689J2W1X02GV03SZN/P1220035.JPG Representational - Limelight 2018 Size: 38"h x 29" w Price: $2700 "Five (sic) Characters in Search of an Author" as Luigi Pirandello might have said. The curtains part and the spotlights over the proscenium arch glare down on the stage, putting them in the "Limelight". Materials: Cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, painted art drawings (pears) by Judy Bianchi, batting, embroidered shadows and texturing threads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1567888920388-770DH0SU1KI18AXS45YJ/Bardach_Nancy_Turbulence_full.JPG Representational - Turbulence 2016 Size: 33"h x 24"w Chaotic changes in fluid flow and velocity have influenced this image. Turbulence is characterized by diffusion, convection, and rapid variation of pressure and fluid flow in space and time. Part of my 'Lunar Worlds' series. Price: $650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469599035755-AC88VGROWVTS8T6A3KAZ/P1190791.JPG Representational - Harvest Moon 2016 Size: 30"h x 24"w Price: $650 Air changes Fire Fire colors Air Water reflects Light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1567889018356-HDGNIFIXFGWBU94YPOL7/Bardach_Nancy_Dystopia_full.JPG Representational - Dystopia 2016 Size: 31"h x 24"w Price: $650 Spheres shatter, orbs fly apart, the sky is falling. Waves are chopping, spiking high. Dismay seizes the world. "Dystopia" is part of a series called "lunar worlds". Varying colors, fabrics and quilting stitches results in mood changes. In format it relates to and contrasts strongly with my peaceful "Harvest Moon". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712088985430-CO242T1KBI5M55OWBXFU/P1190898.JPG Representational - Terpsichore 2016 Size:35” h x 26” w SOLD. Terpsichore is a muse and the goddess of dance. In Greek, her name actually means "delight in dancing". This composition takes its inspiration from that translation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1400907960386-KNKK2YAIM45RWBJRNO5T/P1130515.JPG Representational - Mountain Blossoms Pursue the Rising Sun 1995 Size: 73”h x 56”w Hand quilted. Accepted into: "In Full Bloom 2013" exhibit at the IQF Marketplace 2013, Houston, Texas, and toured for 2 years. Price: $1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1475371514797-FE0OM9U0GOY4OU7F77PH/P1130533.JPG Representational - Mountain Blossoms - detail image Hand quilting echoes leaf shapes, creates stirring wind patterns, and adds to the quality and value of this piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729463405-2N2268WVRF8NOEGT3TCV/Runway+Lights%2C+Rainy+Night-full.JPG Representational - Runway Lights, Rainy Night 2007 Size: 58"w x 56"h SOLD. Denver Airport, a triptych. I sketched these views one night as we landed and taxied toward Denver's gorgeous, lighted terminal with its stretched fabric roof, similar to the Mountain View Amphitheater. Puddles and bright runway lights spin with the plane’s rotation. Rain on tarmac glistens. Shows: Shows: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). “Life Begins at 40” at the International Quilt Festival/Houston 2014; “Art in Public Places” exhibit, a solo display at The Chamber of Commerce, Roseville, CA; https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729370881-0M2XDJM7RBLSTGSFJ4E8/Second+Balcony.JPG Representational - Second Balcony 2012 Size: 18"w x 24"h SOLD. Opera overture, darkened house and orchestra pit, a glimmer of instruments and brilliant lighting on the sheet music. The gold curtain is still down. On display at Berkeley Civic Center, Berkeley CA in 2015-16. Shown at "Shelter" in The Purple Pomegranate Gallery, Whitefish, MT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1394068205000-55K3198N4G68HYBG6A5Q/IronbarkFull.JPG Representational - Ironbark 2014 20"h x 24"w SOLD Ironbarks are the most beautiful of all California eucalyptus trees. Dark, rough bark with deep crevasses. Red veins and red accents on the dying brown leaves. When blooming the flowers are gorgeous red fluff balls. Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). “American Landscape” exhibit, 2018 at the Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) in Annapolis, MD; in an online show “Favorite Things - Trees” at the Sebastapol Center for the Arts, 2021; on display at the Berkeley- Civic Center for a year in 2015-16; in "Northern California Inspirations" at San Jose Quilt Museum, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390787231812-3BP5VSQABVGSS1W1W1NY/P1150506.JPG Representational - View from a High Place 2013 Size approx. 30"h x 40"w An abstract reality, the view of San Francisco Bay as one stands on top of Indian Rock in Berkeley. It encompasses the Bay, curving around towards the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, the Golden Gate, Marin County headlands and Mt. Tam. At your feet a grid of street and garden parks appears, in steep perspective. SOLD.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1394068506039-TSJR38LP8LTRY6Z6G8KA/P1160656.JPG Representational - Tableau- Morceaux 2014 Size: 44”h x 32”w SOLD Ordinary alimentary settings and kitchen tools writ large. Frozen, exaggerated, each is poised on a striped tablecloth to create a fantasy foursome: five pepper blend, soup, garlic with press, and a glass of wine. Exhibited in SAQA show "Food for Thought" and this exhibition toured internationally for 3 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469512870196-KSPH7JXEWW0TPXKXY3UN/Bardach_Nancy_Solar_Full.JPG Representational - Solar 2015 Size: 25"h x 43" w SOLD A California dream --- solar on every housetop. Flickering, syncopated motion across the fabric field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390805019368-1OR5QY5ZVAGO9HGSQQ2A/P1160047.JPG Representational - Chelyabinsk Skies 2014 Size: 22"h x 18"w Massive meteors are rare events for us; breaking up as they flare - even more unusual. The shocking noise and force of impact are belied by its long gentle arc and the flat, boring landscape setting. A copse of trees is the only thing on the horizon. SOLD.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1393802557144-FPDVJK5LT1TACAG2HLQF/Bardach-Nancy-He+Always+Wondered_full.JPG Representational - He Always Wondered 2014 Size: 20" x 20" Price: $450 Made in honor of my father Ewan Watts Fletcher. Narrative piece with words reading, "My father taught radar at Harvard during the war. One night during a training exercise out at Boston Harbor, a mysterious, unauthorized submarine appeared on the screen. He always wondered ... German?" http://nancybardach.com/old-becomes-new daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768075738471-NMZNNNEH0CQ70739VS5Q/Bardach_Nancy_Ark+of+Poetry_2500+pix.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Ark of the Spirit 2022 Size: 72” high x 53” wide Price: $1250 Peaceful introspection and a light wind at the window curtain. Poetry, quotations, and flowers create the mood. The printed fabrics incorporated are by artist Anne Germanacos with poetry quotations from members of her synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1576374554725-SEE7WLERFL1IM5F4IO40/Bardach_Nancy_Reflections+of+Heat_full.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Reflections of Heat 2013 40”h x 42”w x 2” deep (gallery framed) Price: $1400. Red Poppy, yellow light. Reflections and spicy colors. Hand quilted textures create folding blossom petals and ribbed leaves. A variation on an old pattern known as King Solomon’s Puzzle or Drunkard’s Path. Geometric increases in size govern the shapes as they move outward. Currently traveling in Global SAQA show “Primal Forces_Earth” until 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768075738471-NMZNNNEH0CQ70739VS5Q/Bardach_Nancy_Ark+of+Poetry_2500+pix.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Ark of the Spirit 2022 Size: 72” high x 53” wide Price: $1250 Peaceful introspection and a light wind at the window curtain. Poetry, quotations, and flowers create the mood. The printed fabrics incorporated are by artist Anne Germanacos with poetry quotations from members of her synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1391897099234-8PJ5SMI01VN3DILW1MBH/Bardach.Nancy-Magnetic+North-FULL.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Magnetic North 2010 Size: 64"w x 64"h Price: $3500 An abstract 'mariner's compass' like image. Butterfly patch variations (cool colors) assembled around a hot center nine patch, on point. 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). Juried into exhibit Q=A=Q, Winter 2010-2011, Schweinfurth Gallery, Auburn NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641708341415-TFSHADGN4VIBWWAVDZZJ/IMG_3738.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - G Minor 3 2019 Size: 47” x 35” wide. Price: $500 Field patterns resemble piano keys. Irregular layout areas show the theme and variations. Harmonious lines and colors of thread add a powerful orchestral background texture. Revisions, spicing it up, continue to this variation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365729173353-YMBR9NR99CSO4TO16Q67/TonePoem.jpg Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Tone Poem - A Baseball Diamond 2013 Size: 57"w x 58"h Price: $3200. A nine-patch baseball field, clay track, seen from behind (and above) home plate. The crowd is represented by colorful squares on top and bottom. The outfield has grass mowing patterns in Fibonacci proportions, creating a sense of perspective. 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1639964427208-EMJRKRKH8KWDX6P6LKUP/Bardach_Nancy_Bravo%21Brava%21_full.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Bravo! Brava! 2018 Size: 41” h x 34” w Price: $900 See SAQA Journal cover (below) for description. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1567228558129-2YS6EJT0FFXECCBNMAON/saqa+jnl.jpg Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Bravo! Brava! 2018 Size: 41” h x 34” w Price: $900 This composition appears to be an actor’s mask, winking. Accepting the accolades of the audience and the red bouquets, (s)he smiles. The pattern is based on the traditional "Wagon Wheel' or "Spider's Web", changing up the scale and arrangements of the “spider’s web” motif. Bravo! Brava! has lively motion, suiting the idea of theatrical performances. Shown in the exhibition Fibre Theatricks (a SAQA regional show) at the Harrington gallery, Pleasanton, CA. Featured on Cover of 2019 SAQA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1456960302515-UBQZ3OAV0E3Q3075PSZN/P1190097.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Five A. M. 2015 Size: 60” h x 40” w SOLD. Noise in the City --- 5:00 AM. Scribbles of sunlight hit the rain-wet streets. Reinterpretating the traditional pattern --- gigantic teeth of a lumber saw --- I extend its meaning and incorporate expressive light and color. Innovative stitching exaggerates the spikey noise impression.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653431513708-AKFTUOZLLQBXYN2B8Y78/Octagon+stars+-+Back+for+it+by+Nancy.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - 2021 - Back (for Octagon Stars by Cindi Cossen) - Twin Bed sized. Collaboration with Cindi Cossen- Nancy assembled her stack of octagon star squares into a “top”; backing by Nancy (blown up Octagon Star) and quilting by Nancy. Sleeve obscures the triangle point at the top of this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1672189554624-J017BI2IIO71ROKNR8IO/Bosphorus+-+1800+pix.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Bosphorous 2014 Size: 30”h x 58”w Patterned but wild, with a hint of oriental carpet. SOLD (commissioned) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768076084737-ACRSJHFE5QEX2WRRTNF6/Tumbling+Blue-+full.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Tumbling Blue 2009 Size: for a baby’s crib An array of variations on the traditional log cabin, with movement and rhythm added. Donated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1456960539453-0RFWIANDZTC0K1E06XTS/P1200120.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Cobalt Bars 2016 Size: 31"h x 30"w Price: $300. Modern take on an old Amish pattern, assembling fabric in multiple lines and rows. Strong colors with cobalt blue highlighting the mix.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1525997266356-XOSG6T5USFSQYIMAXYDB/Bardach_Nancy_Compartments_48x36.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Compartments 2012 Size: 48”h x 34”w Price $450 Abstract imagery conveying painful emotions. Images are set in a framework of strength, keeping dark feelings --- like depression, frenzy, suffocation, madness --- contained. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1573763175489-J9VNTUPUAQVK9Z1M62CU/Bardach_Nancy_Reflections%2Bof%2BHeat_full.jpg Rethinking Traditional Patterns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1437499662009-0KNR4T1GEXQKCU3NG8DV/Bardach_Nancy_Dancing+Pumpkins.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Dancing Pumpkins 2015 Crib size quilt, commissioned. SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1528670186507-75RMQBY91W07Z8JNQN4J/Compartments+2_+full.JPG Rethinking Traditional Patterns - Compartments 2 2018 Size: 48”h x 34”w Price $800 The electric excitement we sometimes feel as theater-goers is achieved by actors tapping into their deep emotions. The variety of those emotions is astounding. Materials: Cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, batting, texturing threads. Techniques: Freehand curve cutting, machine piecing and embroidery, machine quilting. http://nancybardach.com/chuppahs-and-bed-quilts daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1654060359934-KHFXH5D0WP1TNVOQMXGL/new+Japanese+quilt-+10+ft+by+10+ft.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Mood Indigo - draft on design wall 2021 - See next image for bed and description. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1654060359934-KHFXH5D0WP1TNVOQMXGL/new+Japanese+quilt-+10+ft+by+10+ft.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Mood Indigo - draft on design wall 2021 - See next image for bed and description. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1666744591259-S77LH7ZU7249WM6OLWRQ/Octagon+stars+-+Back+for+it+by+Nancy.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Back of "Octagon Stars" (front is by Cindi Cossen) Size; Twin bed. 2021 - Collaboration with Cindi Cossen- Nancy assembled her stack of octagon star squares into a “top”; backing was designed by Nancy (it’s an super-sized Octagon Star) and quilted by Nancy. In the photo the hanging sleeve obscures the triangle point at the top of this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492319307264-W4NCV99NTHO45EQMMOQL/P1180318.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Dancing Pumpkins 2015 Size: crib sized quilt, commissioned for new baby with two older siblings. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641704818869-2AZBMRJBZA0NQ4ICAQHE/Benjamins+Snow+Leopard+for+Tween.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Benjamin's Snow Leopard 2019 Tween-size donation quilt, created to feature a snow leopard, printed on fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641688771658-HYS3D5I3SMXPZGKGYCXF/Dune+bug-+400.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Dune Bug 2020 Commissioned by friends for friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492317984518-IVWMUTAU6JZLPIS58XWS/Bardach_Nancy_African+Influences_full.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - African Influence 2012 Size: approximately double bed. Not for Sale. Commissioned by an artist who chose many of these 'ethnic' fabrics from my 'stash', this piece is influenced by the metal sculptures of a Ghanaian metal assemblage artist, El Anatsui. Its dynamic play of light and shapes creates a bas-relief look, and its irregular edges evoke the roughness of el Anatsui's wall hangings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492318871238-RL1ECSB6JXZ8P2H0Z903/P1050551.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - La Tendresse 2010 Size; Queen bed. Not for Sale. Designed with its Owner's Chinese rug in mind, this bed quilt refers loosely to its colors and motifs. Notice the Asian-influenced fabrics and how the field bleeds, characteristically, into the border. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492317369060-DPSFKM1299D547SACGRR/Primarycolorsfull-1.jpg Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Primary Colors 2009 Size: 114"h x 110"w Not for Sale. Using only three colors, I designed this ‘colorist’ art quilt to have several areas spotlit in white light. By adding lighter and darker splashes that echo nearby colors, I keep the eye moving and add to the illusion. It is the ‘sparks of light’ and the sparkling colors that make this quilt so exciting. Designed as a wedding chuppah; owned by the married couple.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492316478455-X3XJ7MTDIUITYS6CC1U4/Kimonoinspiredfull.jpg Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Kimono Inspired 2008 Size: 120"h x 97"w Not for sale. Using Japanese and other fabrics with other designers’ patterns is more challenging, complex and nuanced. I specialize in designing ‘colorist’ quilts that move from color to color in a variety of ways --- blending with intermediate shades, adding color splashes that echo nearby colors, and keeping the eye moving to encourage the color integration. It is the ‘sparks of light’ and the sparkling colors that make this quilt so exciting.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1617578633539-5P7Y3PX2MA1NM07DJKKG/Bardach+and+Cossen_+Baby+quilt.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Ahoy, Ye Lubbers! 2020 Size: Donation Beyond the traditional log cabins and lighthouses, we travel out to sea. A collaboration between Nancy and Cindi Cossen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492317532116-P8O17C9JPNZ6YFKJAO78/Bardach_Nancy_Sunlit+Flowers%2C+Arbor+and+Stream_full.jpg Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Sunlit Flowers, Arbor and Stream 2004 Size: 120"h x 120"w Not for Sale. Using a variety of modules and many fabrics from Japan, this design creates the illusion of a field of flowers with sun streaming across it. A curving Japanese water pattern pieced into the stream adds to the illusion of motion. An arbor in perspective is covered in flowers as well. Designed as a wedding chuppah; owned by the married couple.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492316126880-B5NDS7B71OBLQZS6VHS2/Lap+or+baby+quilt-+tied.JPG Chuppahs, Bed and Baby Quilts - Birth (Lotus Leaves) 2016 Size: 35” h x 41” w. Price: $200. Lap robe or baby quilt; cottons, painted, machine-appliqued and traditionally hand-tied in various colors of perle cotton. Painted flower courtesy of a Velda Newman pattern. http://nancybardach.com/sheen-series-designs-alluding-to-hebrew-letter-sheen-in-abstract-calligraphy-form daily 0.75 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000412155-HTK7QB2816IFCMZC0T6E/Bardach_Nancy_Flywheel+Rondo+II_full.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo II 2014 Size: 58”h x 72”w Price: $3800 Interactions between humankind and water are ancient and meaningful. One early way we captured the power of water was the waterwheel. Adding “flyweights” or “lugs”at the periphery of these wheels smoothed rotary motion and stored energy. Colors and cut shapes in Flywheel Rondo II were selected to give the impression of rotational momentum --- an abstract, dancing water wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000412155-HTK7QB2816IFCMZC0T6E/Bardach_Nancy_Flywheel+Rondo+II_full.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo II 2014 Size: 58”h x 72”w Price: $3800 Interactions between humankind and water are ancient and meaningful. One early way we captured the power of water was the waterwheel. Adding “flyweights” or “lugs”at the periphery of these wheels smoothed rotary motion and stored energy. Colors and cut shapes in Flywheel Rondo II were selected to give the impression of rotational momentum --- an abstract, dancing water wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000732441-I8F4URSS0M3XPQ67E6CX/P1160313.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo II - detail Long-arm quilting for Flywheel Rondo II is by Angie Woolman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000318957-IW0NOVGVFOK7AC8LKFW9/IMG_5136%2Bcopy.jpg "Sheen" Series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1391899876955-FQEALTTAU31563NPJEFJ/P1160420.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo I 2012 Size: 56"h x 55"w Price: $3800 Black 'Figure' on light 'Ground'. One of the Flywheel Rondo series. Machine quilting by artist. Shown in "Point of View" exhibit at Vanderoth Gallery (Jewish Community Alliance) in Jacksonville, FL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1391887944775-K171D54L8ISF8TDUQXHS/P1160442.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo I - detail Long-arm quilting for Flywheel Rondo II is by Angie Woolman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1391899723030-PKLYBUHAKJ1IW7JIHZGL/P1160382.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo III 2014 Size: 72" x 72" Price: $5000. Earliest of the Flywheel Rondos, where rotating impression evolved as fabric shapes were quickly and intuitively curve-cut and thrown up on the design wall. Long arm quilting by Angie Woolman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1391897953843-74XI0IR9P7GXO0YR5JEN/P1160389.JPG "Sheen" Series - Flywheel Rondo III Dynamic pattern of interlocking 'fans' with bent grass blowing in the 'wintry blast' is called "Nowaki" in the 'Sashiko' Japanese stitching tradition. Long-arm quilting for Flywheel Rondo III is by Angie Woolman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390786264008-VV8HYDKIJAFQPKZ282M4/P1090899.JPG "Sheen" Series - Shalhevet (flame) 2012 Size: 40" x 40" Price: $1500 Imagery of flame, prayer shawls, the Western Wall. Shows: in Liturgical & Sacred Art, Springfield, Illinois in 2014 and in SAQA's exhibit "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" at the European Patchwork Festival 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641712276250-YQMFDL5MNVKHSCW0KZG1/Shin.JPG "Sheen" Series - Shin 2015 Size: 17”w x 34”h Price: $250. Freehand curve cutting - evolving from organic motions of body and hand - is akin to sketching on your cutting table. As I “swept” my arm through several arc shapes, this early black and white fabric sketch accidentally resembled the letter ‘shin’. From it, I started a series of quilts, all incorporating an image of the letter shin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641712353026-N1FNPUNPS6D3DOORYIH0/Shin+series-+early+fabric+image.jpg "Sheen" Series - Shin series - origins 2015 Size: 38 w x 34”h (approx.) Shin is a Hebrew letter which begins many poetic words, the Hebrew words for --- peace, inspiration, roots, poetry and song, and, for example, the “shalom” in Yerushalayim or Jerusalem. I remember being astonished and pleased with Leonard Baskin’s 1974 illustrated Haggadah with it’s dancing Hebrew letters. http://nancybardach.com/donation-to-saqa-auction-2014-fundraiser daily 0.75 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653429336041-A3Z0HO3RRAY4CDFMYRGD/IMG_5439.JPG Donations - Handwriting 2022 16”x 16” Artist Statement: I admired Roberta Jamison’s calico quilt (an historical image from the International Quilt Museum’s collection). It is an original take on the sunflower, completely hand-worked. Her hands and eye give us both variety and pattern. My variations on the fabric colors result in a new sunflower dedicated to Ukraine. (Fundraiser for Ukraine humanitarian aid.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653429336041-A3Z0HO3RRAY4CDFMYRGD/IMG_5439.JPG Donations - Handwriting 2022 16”x 16” Artist Statement: I admired Roberta Jamison’s calico quilt (an historical image from the International Quilt Museum’s collection). It is an original take on the sunflower, completely hand-worked. Her hands and eye give us both variety and pattern. My variations on the fabric colors result in a new sunflower dedicated to Ukraine. (Fundraiser for Ukraine humanitarian aid.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1762045432488-EE729DJHD1EALXR4W786/Bardach_Nancy_Dialogue_full.JPG Donations - Dialogue 2023 Size: 12” x 12” Auction donation to SAQA Circles of conversation. Hand quilting, machine piecing. piecing, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653434059135-6QA4GIDRDNRVQLM1086K/Bardach_Nancy_Shibui.JPG Donations - Shibui 2022 - 8” x 6” For SAQA Conference 2022 Auction fundraiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653432566859-J7NYP2JR5MVUG38CJD13/P1180302.JPG Donations - Tocatta and Fugue 2022 (2014) - 12” x 12” - donation to 2022 SAQA Benefit Auction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1654059738161-YBJLD1ODT6018AVCPI6M/Bardach_Nancy_Suez+Canal-March+2021.JPG Donations - Suez Canal - the Ever Given, stuck 2021 Size: 6” h x 8” w Donation to SAQA auction On March 23rd this year, the Ever Given container ship got wedged into the East bank of the Suez Canal. It remained blocking Marine traffic for 4 or more days (still counting), with dozens of ships stuck at both the north and south entrances to the shortest route between Asia and Africa. One of the world's largest cargo vessels,, presumably driven by high sandstorm winds, the poor visibility and the enormous size of the ship caused it to slew sideways and block the width of the canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641687887207-RGU7KQ5QS6OZEKUNYUBV/Octagon+stars+-+Back+for+it+by+Nancy.JPG Donations - Back for Cindi's Octagon Stars 2021 Collaboration with Cindi Cossen- her stack of octagon star squares were assembled and quilted by Nancy; backing by Nancy. Sleeve obscures the triangle at top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641689571369-MYJWFZA5NMJETV6XS4QD/Bees.JPG Donations - Bees 2020 Size: 36 x 42 approx. Elegant, rotating squares, like ‘flying’ bees (Cindi’s pattern pieces) were assembled by Nancy. Honeycomb fabric joins up the pieces at their hive. Another donation baby quilt - pandemic year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1449272079011-RBM0OFSR89WUKSUPIBF1/P1170012.JPG Donations - New Shoots 2014 Size: 12" x 12". Created for Studio Art Quilters Assoc. fundraising auction, 2014. SAQA is the national professional organization for art quilting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703355232-590BM3VBWSXYP7EY8FK6/P11607281.JPG Donations - Dawn Spider Web 2020 Large baby quilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641688496674-WE2C5LZ21I6RM9IDIU5R/Fish+Kites.JPG Donations - Fish Kites Flying 2020 - Donation quilt made during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641687951726-0EUHJ1EHJ9W4TVBKYJ68/Improv+in+6+inches.JPG Donations - Improv in 6 inch squares 2020 Improv donation quilt (tween size - approx. 54” x 72”) made during the pandemic. Quilted by Sue Fox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641688484420-4J87IEOPEO3OBBJT89X4/Back+of+donation+quilt-1.JPG Donations - Back of donation quilt 2020 - Made during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653430167343-NBRE5T37Y15UD6VT8TR6/babyquilt+from+6+inch+sqs-2020.JPG Donations - Baby Quilt - image of unquilted top 2020 - donation - - - brightly colored 6" squares arrayed in design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641689119179-H1T948CEBVREZPQNL41Y/New+baby+quilt+Cindi%27s+scraps.JPG Donations - Cindi's scraps 2020 Another new baby quilt from Cindi Cossen’s studio pieces. Made during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1437499903507-YXMVHDW9E0LSYEYDJS9N/Bardach_Nancy_Americann+Aerial_full.JPG Donations - American Aerial 2015 Size: 25" x 25" Created for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Donated for the museum's 25th Anniversary fund raiser. For sale at the museum. Contact: 1213 Washington Ave, Golden, CO 80401 · (303) 277-0377 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641707633071-ULJ9YBJXL2NMPJVSQKQ6/IMG_4916.JPG Donations - Ahoy! Ye Lubbers! 2020 Size: Crib sized quilt. Donation Beyond the traditional log cabins and lighthouses, we travel out to sea. A collaboration between Nancy and Cindi Cossen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641688509989-99L5I6AXMHOOFDMY1BL2/Gingham+book+shelves+-+400.JPG Donations - Gingham book shelves 2020 - Tween size donation made during the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1672190640233-1VWD6A40S9OT8S9L0R9Q/Bardach_Nancy_Time+and+Troubles_full.JPG Donations - Time and Troubles 2020 Size: 45”h x 36”w Symbols of 2020, the long year of loneliness. Hour glass shapes connect at their centerpoints. Dark powerful curves connect and misconnect, as in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703201508-AO05G51M149DZKN0N9E5/IMG_4519.JPG Donations - Carp Fabric from Cindi 2020 - twin bed sized Donation for Fred Finch Youth and Family Services - for young people upon graduation from foster care, age 18. Shown unquilted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641687940791-6CNOSRX8M7WKRMYPVGD3/Improv+9+patch+for+baby.JPG Donations - Improv 9 patch for a baby 2021 Donations during the pandemic- first year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653431235394-ABP6SBFYAEXEUL08BTYL/Donation+-+2007.JPG Donations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653431177774-LXXGZM0XG5SBI5RPC8LL/Cindi+in+Christmas+colors.JPG Donations - Cindi in Christmas Colors 2019 - twin bed sized - donation quilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703424943-0QFOGO1YH0DBCZK08KED/IMG_4786.JPG Donations - Scrap Baby Quilt 2020 Another 6” square composition. Pandemic year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492319901708-XK6JRLG5T206XXX78FBG/P1200813.JPG Donations - Pomegranates 2016 Size: 10" x 10" Auction asking price: $85 A dancing cluster of pomegranates, painted on fabric by one artist, Judy Bianchi, and composed into this design by another. I created Pomegranates for the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York, home of the Q=A=Q (Quilts=Art=Quilts) exhibitions. It was donated for a fundraiser called 10 x 10=ART MAKE ART FOR ART. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492320219300-32143BANP1I06YLPH5WI/P1210095-001.JPG Donations - Isobars 2017 Size: 6” x 8” (shown, as framed, at 4.5” x 6”) Isobars and contour lines are both sexy curving lines superimposed in air. Our attempts to describe phenomena and pinpoint differences are part of being human. So are the wild swerves that Nature sometimes superimposes on our attempts. Created for SAQA Spotlight auction at SAQA Conference, 2017, in Lincoln, Nebraska.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492320432916-JVUFT5OQDIYI3ZIEHJ0D/P1200304.JPG Donations - Ancients 2016 Size: 12" x 12" Donated for SAQA's annual fundraising Auction in 2016. See http://www.saqa.com/auction for information about purchasing an original fabric art piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641706986508-H5AH525LKZ3Q12M7CU4T/IMG_4181.JPG Donations - Squares within Squares 2015 Crib size baby quilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703526755-1J9UNPN28XUG12GNAPDN/IMG_5630.JPG Donations - Scrap Baby Quilt 2015 Scraps from my studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703602976-I28VNHEUAVL4962E1WOB/P1180124.JPG Donations - Scraps from my Studio - 2 2015 Using up scraps for donation quilts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703654189-A511N6NG9S9IS6YFM703/IMG_5625.JPG Donations - Strip Scraps- Roman Stripes 2015 A crib-size baby quilt. Only the top shown; machine quilted later by me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641703668277-MBN8L6S6716MXGH3VOPL/IMG_5623.JPG Donations - Square Scraps 2015 Scraps from my studio; I quilted this top later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1474394403276-ANMXZF1USSHGW3L1G2JP/Bardach_Nancy_Pomegranates.JPG Donations http://nancybardach.com/agglomerations daily 1.0 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469508455375-UHPYH6UGPSDR1IOVCHY3/Bardach_Nancy_The+Body+Electric_2167pix.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - The Body Electric 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469508455375-UHPYH6UGPSDR1IOVCHY3/Bardach_Nancy_The+Body+Electric_2167pix.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - The Body Electric 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365728951170-VI34LUVOJ206QTUTP6AT/Evaporating.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Evaporating 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390788624801-6Z6OIHYIUFY7APKCQVIS/P1120075.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Originating 2012 Size: 54"h x 53"w Price: $2500 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1488942057029-DQE0X8BBLDOKVOLNQLRK/P1090504.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Compartments 2012 Size: 35"h x 48"w Price: $400 Abstract imagery conveying painful emotions. Images are set in a framework of strength, keeping dark feelings --- like depression, frenzy, suffocation, madness --- contained. Designed in response to a Japanese Quilt Show theme of the seven deadly sins; originally named "Peccare". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492322293489-RP62I2L0NORY5H4MIE1D/Composing+Colors-full-BardachN.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Composing Colors 2013 Size: 74"w x 94"h Price: $5000. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1365728980368-WQW2L459T1HHEJH326WZ/Extrapolating.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Extrapolating 2012 Size: 90"h x 43"w Price: $3900 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540596637086-QR8NSI0WOEXPGK9Q9Q1J/Compartments+2_+full.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Compartments 2 2018 Size: 48”h x 34”w Price $1300 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1427344901665-00N9A5HR77CCABU1XDGR/image-asset.jpeg Agglomerations & Linear formats - Benthos 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390788387400-7EF00JK1OC9JVTN7YOK0/P1120631.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Accelerating - Decelerating 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653432155686-ESOWPOO8B0L733MYMOJO/Wall+A+-+Accelerating-+Decelerating+-+800+pix.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Accelerating- Decelerating modified for wall installation 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.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469508404051-J9BA7YTOJG7IXLNDS8GF/Bardach_Defragging_45hx40w.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Defragging: a Time-lapse View 2014 Size: 45"h x 40"w Price: $1700 A time-lapse view of defragging your computer. Beautiful blipping pixels and a feeling of exhilaration as we watched the system 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1474333797289-C7YK2EBFG31TAYC8KZ33/Acrobatics_56x108_full.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Acrobatics 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1427345791466-2P3JNOSV2OY81MBKYV5B/Bardach_Nancy_Syncopating_Full.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Syncopating 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1474333296641-IGB7GO8N107VYJNSVBTJ/Irregularity_29x56_full.JPG Agglomerations & Linear formats - Irregularity 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. http://nancybardach.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768076892574-SHVJAMTIBE8G91KMPDND/Tomatoes+3_full.jpeg Smaller Pieces - Tomatoes 3 2025 Size: 12’x 12” Painted images of heritage tomatoes in a dance-like array. Background: dark red cotton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768076892574-SHVJAMTIBE8G91KMPDND/Tomatoes+3_full.jpeg Smaller Pieces - Tomatoes 3 2025 Size: 12’x 12” Painted images of heritage tomatoes in a dance-like array. Background: dark red cotton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768077093296-3B0M7XOO5AKDR3NIBU5V/Cherry+Tomatoes+3_full.jpeg Smaller Pieces - Cherry Tomatoes 2025 Size 12” x 12” Painted images of cherry tomatoes on the vine, framed by complimentary cottons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540600200486-2IDV85Z7FHR9Y9S7OSZJ/P1210494.JPG Smaller Pieces - The Fish in the Sea 4 2018 Size: 11.5”h x 17-20” wide. Price: $450 A batik with a look of schools of fish inspired this series. The Fish in the Sea 4 is reminiscent of a boat shape. Three of the Fish in the Sea series were created for my solo show at Bay Quilts in March, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641708773283-MIPHAG2JBFLCHMO0P7WM/IMG_4661.JPG Smaller Pieces - Sunflowers from the Past 2020 Size: 28”h x 23”w Painted petals from the past, from a popular “painting on fabric” workshop Cindi took in about 2010 from quilter Phil Beaver. She recently placed them on a sunlit, tie-dyed background she made. Assembled into a new, whole design they created a windy sunflower garden. Artist: Cindi Cossen. Quilter and assembler: Nancy Bardach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1703880478796-MHXUVH65BEAQJ0GNMFGV/P1200611.JPG Smaller Pieces - The Fish in the Sea 2016 Size: approx. 13” x 13” Price: $450 Sleek, silhouetted sardines flash by underwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1757366877100-JNGGO9T890WB2PJW9UTD/image-asset.jpeg Smaller Pieces - Violins for the Soul 2019 Size; 14" x 14" Price: $350 Mending broken circles, finding anew the personal links we need to sing, to share, to breathe. Machine and hand stitching, cotton fabrics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492321377696-AXTJ1S7EAC40JRDJFK4X/Bardach_N_Reflections-+glass+and+teak+railing%2C+shipboard_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Reflections: Glass and Teak Railing, Shipboard 2010 Size: 12"h x 12"w Price: $300. Brilliant white reflections in glass guard railings on a ship, Alaska-bound. Late afternoon light in Vancouver Harbor, with teak leaning rail crossing through the image. Juried into "Reflections" at Gallery 21, Spanish Village, San Diego and in "Little Works" at Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1694280691074-Y1CECJV4UVT13AHE6Y09/Bardach_Nancy_Dialogue_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Dialogue 2023 Size: 12” x 12” Auction donation to SAQA Hand quilting, piecing, circles of dialogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1469683896128-OYBE42KPBS88OPZ7CVJX/Bardach_Nancy_Cabernet_full+.JPG Smaller Pieces - Cabernet 2016 12" x 12" An abstract evoking the colors and fluidity of a glass of Cabernet. Hand-stitched highlights. SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619730540-LJ0BG2SNBD103YYKWHS4/Circus+8+-12hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 8 2017 Size: 12”high x 11”wide Price: $450 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1475722947653-76614VDY6GY0VKDXVCK8/Bardach_Nancy_Be+Fruitful+and+Multiply_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Be Fruitful and Multiply 2016 Size: 10" x 7" (intended for framing) Created to travel in SAQA's new national trunk show (2017-19). The trunk shows circulate for 3 years throughout SAQA's venues for education, critiques and discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558481800014-EQXNJ3F40O1VURGL7X9R/Bardach_Nancy_Come+Hither_full-600+pix.JPG Smaller Pieces - Come Hither 2016 Size: 12” x 12” Price: $250. Simply piecing three monochromatic fabrics together created fiery coloring, a narrative, and strong movement. Bleaching black fabric pulls forth underlying dyes. Materials: Shibbori dyed fabric, printed cotton, and jersey; machine pieced and textured. “Come Hither” was exhibited at Visions Art Museum, in a show called “Day of the Dead” 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641706232760-OSTTCW9SWN8F0RW3ZVFH/P1210596.JPG Smaller Pieces - Dawn at the Farm 2018 Size: 19”h x 16”w Price: $300 Imagery and colors evoke ancient clash between machinery and nature. Morning light - at dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558480261891-1U6SBSA39Y1SFUK6D6ET/P1210823.JPG Smaller Pieces - Tomatoes 1 2018 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD Cottons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641704356649-78C14TMZDW6YEW5A3F3O/Three+Pomegranates.JPG Smaller Pieces - Three Pomegranates 2017 Size 12 x 12 inch SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558480220346-HTXH828416O1ZV1OSHLG/P1210829.JPG Smaller Pieces - Tomatoes 2 2018 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558480301708-2PIZ42C5RWLQ7K43DB28/P1210800.JPG Smaller Pieces - Pears 2018 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1756855609920-E807QKOPWGN4XBTCCDLB/P1210616.JPG Smaller Pieces - Tipsy 2 2018 Size: 12 x 12 inches Price $250 Design elements, “falling down” shape, and eccentric embroidered lines make up this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641704463868-NG5QJI9V34PFT7FPVI93/Vote+for+Women.JPG Smaller Pieces - Vote for Women 2019 Size: 30”high x 20”wide. Takeoff on an old Suffragette poster, brought up to date for all our elections. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619671560-790XZP1BO4WQQ3I0LTGB/Circus+2+-12hx12w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 2 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641704091023-REAOAX2E9QWG8EREOINC/Bardach_Nancy_Jia%27s+Dragon+-+full_600+pix.JPG Smaller Pieces - Jia's Dragon 2019 12” x 12” Not available. Jia’s Dragon is based on a fantasy dragon sketched by my granddaughter Jia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619849330-J4RDQIYLF78OX2PXW1WV/Circus+12-12hx12w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 12 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619704892-PBSFLS4SLFXMWWCIOXFI/Circus+5-12hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 5 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619872878-FFL7TA495AFXKU1YL213/Circus+15-12hx12w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 15 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619679846-1WCI20LJ6JPFW5JBRZ5G/Circus+3-11hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 3 2017 Size: 11” x 11” SOLD My art quilt collages pieced with a French fabric make up a series of 18 circus pieces. The French artist Niki de Phalle created works that looked a lot like the circus characters. I found the themed fabric in Paris, and its resemblance to her work is obviously an homage to her images. Her sculpture includes the very colorful Stravinsky Fountain at the Pompidou in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619712970-7EHOY10EHGF3TT1MOMV9/Circus+6-12hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 6 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619692481-P3NZM0YF1SXOMQ9TSNAE/Circus+4-9hx13w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 4 2017 Size: 13”h x 9”w SOLD My art quilt collages pieced with a French fabric make up a series of 18 circus pieces. The French artist Niki de Phalle created works that looked a lot like the circus characters. I found the themed fabric in Paris, and its resemblance to her work is obviously an homage to her images. Her sculpture includes the very colorful Stravinsky Fountain at the Pompidou in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619865428-3PDLY9YSNSBTK9BLEP7U/Circus+14-12hx13w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 14 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619888470-VUURFRM63PH4ESOMZU2P/Circus+17-12hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 17 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619895641-3762T9A9XIDT2BBI1E0N/Circus+18-10+3%3A4hx10+3%3A4w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 18 2017 Size: 11” x 11” SOLD My art quilt collages pieced with a French fabric make up a series of 18 circus pieces. The French artist Niki de Phalle created works that looked a lot like the circus characters. I found the themed fabric in Paris, and its resemblance to her work is obviously an homage to her images. Her sculpture includes the very colorful Stravinsky Fountain at the Pompidou in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619840528-G8H8UDMDBMVQK4WRVSWM/Circus11-12hx13w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 11 2017 Size: 12” x 13” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619857159-VI4D8NEYWYNDZT44PJQW/Circus+13-12hx12w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus 13 2017 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1475721799687-PSYZN590VSH7I868LMMR/Bardach_Nancy_Be+Fruitful+and+Multiply_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Be Fruitful and Multiply 2016Size: 10" x 7" Made to travel in SAQA's next trunk show (2017-19). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619721225-NR32O0K9IEUET3Q0VPGS/Circus+7-13hx12w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1492753827972-MDC47L1TVKA0V467VA9W/P1070055.JPG Smaller Pieces - Dynamism 2011 Size: 12" x 12" Price: $250 Movement is in the process--- assemble and piece colors, select parts for interest and excitement; then piece a whole design again--- creating a dynamic composition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558481569120-UQ7NWHS8H1RKZHUWCLD6/Bardach_Nancy_Vibrations_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Vibrations 2014 Size: 12” x 12” SOLD. Hand dyed silks and cottons with spotlights shining out of the fabrics are composed to enhance the repeating 'motif'. The light has a pulsating quality. The eccentric stitching patterns in many colors add vibes of electricity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1390848167334-XKWYDF9ROTK59D52C7B1/P1160259.JPG Smaller Pieces - Rift Valleys 2014 Size: 10"h x 7"w SOLD. Living in earthquake country makes me very aware of geological rifts, especially the ones that look volcanic. Cotton fabrics, machine pieced and quilted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1465169503715-LQZW5DJB9MTZ3LRTNYGW/P1200429.JPG Smaller Pieces - Silk and the City 2016 Size: 16" x 17"w Cotton and silk, pieced, machine quilted. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1490154817746-JHM9JGKS1ILI2TQZ3QI8/P1210007.JPG Smaller Pieces - Pomegranates II 2016 17” h x 10” w SOLD. A dancing cluster of pomegranates, painted by one artist, Judy Bianchi, and composed into this design by another, Nancy Bardach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1465165957979-43ZJGXAQ0RXKGV4MFO9V/P1200404.JPG Smaller Pieces - Abode 2016 Size: 15"h x 17"w SOLD. Design featuring a building or mesa-like shape against a sunset sky. Materials: cottons, some with "gold leaf" highlights, and batiks; machine-pieced and -quilted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1465169505929-GAV0GS7JT1YZUFGI4EE2/P1200412.JPG Smaller Pieces - Stack 2016 Size: 12” h x 11” w. Pieced silks, cottons, one hand-dyed and hand-printed. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1465170483030-DZ241LQLDDFNUXH7TMVP/P1200380.JPG Smaller Pieces - Atmospherics 2016 Size: approx. 15" x 17" Fog over San Francisco Bay, looking towards the Marin County headlands. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1400907509919-4CYCXVPZHAXCXI0VI6BM/P1170103.JPG Smaller Pieces - Dream House 2014 Size: 15"h x 12"w SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558480182148-UQGGH8TV1BVLHIKQGREO/P1210845.JPG Smaller Pieces - Pomegranates 3 2017 SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1540619880897-QJ0UBMXR2Z0N8NT71KPI/Circus+16-12hx11w-Bardach_Nancy.JPG Smaller Pieces - Circus SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1474332911251-GMCVXDU57GCB17USKBR9/Bardach_Nancy_Aztec+Altar_full.JPG Smaller Pieces - Aztec Altar 2016 Size: 31"h x 23"w Price: $800 In an old black and white 1961 photo, Frida appears, standing proudly in Casa Azul’s enclosed garden, near a stepped-stone Aztec altar. It’s solidity and strength, its reference to Frida’s life and her history, are my subject. Frida’s home and studio in Mexico City, the Casa Azul, is in Coyoacan, an historical Spanish residential area, filled with elegant homes. On the altar that Rivera and Kahlo had built in their courtyard, they displayed Pre-Columbian sculptures, cacti and other plants. The altar’s heavy, dense stone shapes remind one of the strictures, both physical and social, Freda Kahlo worked against. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1456806644745-F26GE6ZMGPASUS3QR4VN/P1190791.JPG Smaller Pieces - Harvest Moon 2016 Size: 30"h x 24"w Price: $650 Air changes Fire Fire colors Air Water reflects Light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1456801523770-JU624Z15BVKW6O1YMQ3I/IMG_8532.JPG Smaller Pieces - Turbulence 2016 Size: 35"h x 24"w Chaotic changes in fluid flow and velocity have influenced this image. Turbulence is characterized by diffusion, convection, and rapid variation of pressure and fluid flow in space and time. Price: $900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1456800580127-MEOU96FIBS698T42FZCU/P1190903.JPG Smaller Pieces - Terpsichore 2016 Size: 35"h x 26" w Terpsichore is a muse and the goddess of dance. In Greek, her name actually means "delight in dancing". This composition takes its inspiration from that translation. Price $900   http://nancybardach.com/new-work daily 0.75 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1747511276757-EI4JQ4XFMG8NM0WKPOWG/Bardach_Nancy_In+the+Beginning_full.jpg New Work - In the Beginning 2024 Size 61”h (varies) x 84” wide Price: $3000 A trio of views into deep space? Cold conditions, spotty data transmissions, looming dark holes, heat of strange stars. Jittery lines, distorted curves, longer strides and steps as life emerges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1747511276757-EI4JQ4XFMG8NM0WKPOWG/Bardach_Nancy_In+the+Beginning_full.jpg New Work - In the Beginning 2024 Size 61”h (varies) x 84” wide Price: $3000 A trio of views into deep space? Cold conditions, spotty data transmissions, looming dark holes, heat of strange stars. Jittery lines, distorted curves, longer strides and steps as life emerges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768078522603-LJ8U6BGMXFS7NMEERGAX/Bardach_Nancy_Lascaux2+-+diptych_full.jpg New Work - Lascuax 3 - triptych 2024 Size: 35”h x 108” wide Price: $3500 An abstract Auroch stands near a herd of wild paleolithic horses, ancestors of our horses today. Drawn in ochre and charcoal colors on cave walls by an early artist. In 1963, before they were closed to the public, I saw the original Lascaux cave paintings (c. 15,000 B.C.E.). Confronted by the images’ scale and the rough stone walls, I felt their potency. Seen in low torch light, the depictions of horses, mammoths, aurochs, bison, and deer are mysterious … magnificent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712952993591-GMVTHQMMVWA9K99F42EH/Bardach_Nancy_Lascaux+1_full.jpg New Work - Lascaux 1 - Auroch 2023 Size: 36” high x 34” wide Price: $1500 An auroch, huge ancestor of our cattle, looms over the hunter. Seen in dark caverns by torchlight, these imaginative depictions of animals become mysterious and magnificent. As I assembled this abstract art piece, I began to see shapes and colors reminiscent of Lascaux cave paintings, that date to 16,000 to 14,000 B.C.E. (Upper Paleolithic). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712953114769-B07PKBJ0T9SCWQB6TDVC/Lascaux+-+Auroch+-+6x8+.jpg New Work - Lascaux - Auroch 2024 Size: 6” x 8” w Small thread-drawn sketch of an ancient Auroch made for a 2024 SAQA fundraiser, The Spotlight Auction. It was framed by the organizers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712951050780-1XDZFL9MDH77IPX5SUB9/Bardach_Nancy_Us+-+a+triptych_full.jpg New Work - Us (a triptych) with panels Dawn "limitless", Day "walk with us", Night "perseus" 2024 Size: approx. 54” w x 38” h The family says: “we named each panel after a family trip we have taken in which we have a memory that matches the panel. For dawn, we are remembering our trips to Limantour Beach in Point Reyes (thus, 'limitless. For day, we were remembering our family trips to Hawaii, to Lahaina, and a few weeks ago there was a community walk and memorial event for the fire called 'Come Walk With Us.' We thought 'walk with us' was a nice reference to that memorial and also fits our family. For night, we were inspired by watching the Perseid meteor shower while backpacking.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1666750118125-R45T0GIRE9CZSMZSEI0V/IMG_5734.JPG New Work - Incurvate 3 2022 - Size: 46”h x 70”w SOLD Curving convex and concave shapes of color are segmented by narrow strips, accenting their flow. Thread textures by the artist designate a pattern of wave-like sunlight. These shade/ shadows also highlight the muscularity of the volumes. Curving forms derive from tensile fabric membranes seen in structural amphitheater roofs. Materials: Cotton solids and hand-dyes, batting, texturing thread Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting, machine piecing, home-machine quilting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768080519693-LBBLEL0JGW3VAUTASU12/Bardach_Nancy_ChatGPT_full.jpg New Work - Chat GPT 2024 Size: 35”h x 32”w Price: $2500 Activity and excitement welcomed the first of the AI bots. It radiates brightly into our society. It may transform our age. Chat GPT could (and can) write your essays, do computer programming, and, maybe, take over millions of jobs. Materials: Cottons, silk, hand-dyes, batting, thread. Techniques: Hand and roller cutting, machine piecing, machine quilting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1666750030679-QILVWHWCJJF9YBMMNXC1/Incurvate+2_42x74.JPG New Work - Incurvate 2 2022 Size: 42”h x 74”w Price: $3500 To sever curving convex shape from concave shape, whole areas of color are segmented by narrow strips. These muscular images have a pattern of wave-like curves. Accenting their volumes in thread highlights their forms which are derived from sails or the stretched fabric used in amphitheater roofs. Also see original, my black and white version “Incurvate- Excurvate”. Materials: Cotton solids and hand-dyes, batting, texturing thread Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting, machine piecing, home-machine quilting. Shows: Accepted into “Abstraction: Textural Elements” a SAQA Global exhibition. In September 2024, it will premiere at the Max Berk Textile Collection, Palatinate Museum in Heidelberg, Germany and travel for three years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1667071164023-2WWZT9RVOGR4INDK7HSO/Incurvate+3_46x70.JPG New Work - Incurvate 3 2022 Size: 46”high x 70” wide. Leaves or plates overlapping in space form an interesting figure-ground image. Layering the shapes and accenting their shade/ shadows in threads highlights the physical volumes. These forms derive from the stretched fabric used in long-lived roof structures for outdoor amphitheaters. They are also reminiscent of a layered array of Richard Serra's steel plates. SOLD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1563858900983-EG3URXF7F8PN5OA6X9OK/Bardach_Nancy_Incurvate+and+Excurvate_full.JPG New Work - Incurvate and Excurvate 2016 Size: 21”h x 42”w SOLD. Leaves or plates overlapping in space form an interesting figure-ground image. Layering the shapes and accenting their shade/ shadows in threads highlights the physical volumes. These forms derive from the stretched fabric used in long-lived roof structures for outdoor amphitheaters. They are also reminiscent of a layered array of Richard Serra's steel plates. Exhibited in “Connections” at Quilt Visions in San Diego until January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1694643015318-FHDRJV9AOPDRRTJ6TCPW/Bardach_Nancy_15+Triptychs+-+Alpha_full.jpg New Work - Fifteen Triptychs - Alpha 2023 Size: 83”high x 60” wide. Bed quilt (long twin size). Not for sale. An abstract beauty, one of a pair, made for my Exhibit in the Mountain View Performing Arts lobby (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Materials: Cottons, 80/20 cotton/ poly batting, texturing threads. Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1695184470645-AMW8ES78MAQRROH6D92W/15+Triptychs+-+Beta+-+draft.jpg New Work - Fifteen Triptychs - Beta 2023 Size: 79”h x 58” wide —- Bed quilt (long twin size). Not for sale. “Quilt of illusion”, one of a pair, created for my Exhibit in Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, Oct. 3- Nov 27, 2023. Materials: Cottons, cotton/ poly batting, texturing threads. Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1603342976690-8IWPG2K8T2Z9PRU0HEY8/P1220420.JPG New Work - Old Silent Pond 2019 Size: 22” x 35” Price: $2700 One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku: “Old, silent pond Frog jumps in Sound of splash.” Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including hand-dyes, shibbori-dyes, and hand painted fabrics; machine- pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads. Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1559976388246-0QS2OEQYLN3Y1L5WEHB8/Bardach_Nancy_Still+Pond+-+Frog+Jumps+in_full.JPG New Work - Still Pond – Frog Jumps in 2019 Size: 23” h x 34” wide SOLD One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku: “Old, silent pond Frog jumps in Sound of splash.” Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including shibbori dyes, hand painted fabrics; machine-pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads. Shows: in my Solo Show at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In 2019, “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; “Fleeting Moments” at Art Quilts XXV, Chandler, AZ in 2020; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1559976189272-T5JSNBQDXVZ1AF0AYM05/P1220415.JPG New Work - Sound of Splash 2019 Size: 23” h x 34” wide Price: $1800 One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku: “Old, silent pond Frog jumps in Sound of splash.” Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including shibbori dyed, hand painted; machine- pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads. Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Also in “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1675736387704-SVPEKYDNNJYKZSGY4U19/Bardach_Nancy_Assmebly_47h+x+30wide.JPG New Work - Assembly 2022 Size: 30” h x 47” wide Price: $3200 How will we function as we look to new ways, new identities? Create vs. reclaim. A vision of the future: new vs. old, flow vs. entrapment. Balancing stasis and change. Materials: cottons, tie-dyed circles, indigo scraps, Japanese print; batting, texturing threads. Life continues, and “the dance” of life, too . Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Also published in Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal and Quarterly 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1675736518493-VQTGO0BUFI8GZIODTB00/Bardach_Nancy_Disrepair_full.JPG New Work - In Disrepair 2022 Size: 33” high x 49” wide $3200 Featured artwork is created with digital technology by others: degraded moons are images manipulated in Photoshop and printed on fabric. Inspiration: there was a time, when I was a young visitor, the air space above the city of Pittsburgh was a gigantic rust-colored cloud. Steel mills were busy; air quality was unregulated. The rust discolored everything, even the moon in the sky as we looked up. Materials: Cottons, dyed circles, “rusty air” like shibori dyes; batting, texturing threads. Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Published in Patchwork Professional, a European magazine, in German, May 16, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1672193958773-8Z75KSTLBHZ2CV82YNEB/IMG_5662.JPG New Work - Tornado 2022 Size: 61”h (varies) x 50”w Price: $3000 This breathtaking-tornado transforms life --- clouds loom, farm fields fly in the air, sunlight shatters. Behind the corkscrew updraft tower is a narrow shaft of heavy rain and hail. Tornados are the most visually stimulating of windstorms. Shows: Juried into “Primal Forces: Wind”, a Global SAQA exhibition opened in 2022 and will travel for three years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1672192363059-HNUY1O3V797AVTURIRPE/IMG_6365.JPG New Work - Ukraine in the Crosshairs 2022 Size: 18”h x 39”w Price $850 Struck by a small black and white photo of a missile-damaged grain warehouse in Ukraine, I remembered it. Dark areas seemed to overcome the bright light from open holes. Torn sections of roof littered the floor. Trusses were missing or distorted by the force of the missile. Small piles of grain were yet to be salvaged. Ghosts of former wealth (to feed the world) appear in stitching. Shows: “Ukraine in the Crosshairs” was juried into “Printed and Stitched”, a show SAQA (quilt art) and SDA (surface design) are jointly putting on to celebrate and explore the joining of the two art forms. It appears first in San Jose then travels around the Northern California/Nevada for 3 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1654064862596-94J51FDOJA2ASC4625A0/new+Japanese+quilt-+10+ft+by+10+ft.JPG New Work - Mood Indigo - draft on my design wall 2021 - Size: 10 feet x 10 feet (King size bed) Named for the Duke Ellington jazz piano piece. There are no new shapes, colors, moods; so this one is named for my favorite piece of music. (Also see “Beds” in Menu of this website) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000864175-1LY8DV65JTSLWZXG38SR/Ark+at+SeaJPG.JPG New Work - Ark of the Sea 2021 Size: 25” high x 19”w (varies) SOLD. During times of flood or human catastrophe, an Ark may be life-saving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1694279427162-PBC26QJRWY6WM3V24TJA/Furoshiki+2+-+fish.JPG New Work - Furoshiki 2 - Fish 2023 Twin bed size. Price: $2500 Design of quilt top, composing with Japanese wrapping cloths called furoshiki. Made for my Solo Show in the Mountain View Performing Arts lobby (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1771265899656-HBO8R35RANXKKFJI7PKI/Furoshiki+1+-+dragon.JPG New Work - Furoshiki 1 - Dragon 2023 Twin bed size. Price: $2500 Design of quilt top, composing with Japanese wrapping cloths called furoshiki. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1558479078101-SXYVCWIM19OR63XPLCRA/Bardach_Nancy_Tyger+Tyger_full.JPG New Work - Tyger, Tyger 2019 Size: 23” x 34” Price: $1800 Cottons, silk, batting. Machine piecing, machine-stitched texture. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night….” - William Blake (1794) Image inspired by a Chinese woodcut called tiger in tall grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1653000908443-R5Z0Y990TIDFW1QPCKIT/Ark-+finished+top.JPG New Work - Ark of the Desert 2021 Size: 50” high x 33” wide Price: $1250 The ark with the Torah scroll shining at the center, curtains open. This piece can be seen as the Ark of the Covenant, carried for 40 years in the desert, and also as an abstract doorway. Materials and techniques: Machine pieced cotton, Jordanian and Thai silk fabrics; batting; flowing texturing threads quilted by machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1654060397611-MLC7HL4DW7VF3OHIPXVW/new+Japanese+door+quiltJPG.JPG New Work - Indigo Scroll 2021 Size: door sized: approx. 36” x 84” Sewn during the Lockdown, using the indigo blue fabrics I had in my “stash”. Alas, I had to make a King sized bed quilt to use up the rest of my Japanese blue fabrics. See Mood Indigo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1768075875976-597N0ZY04Q9TJ0PWGKL5/Ark+of+the+Spirit+-+2MB.jpg New Work - Ark of the Spirit 2022 Size: 72” high x 53” wide Price: $1250 Peaceful introspection and a light wind at the window curtain. Poetry, quotations, and flowers create the mood. The printed fabrics incorporated are by artist Anne Germanacos with poetry quotations from members of her synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641707503232-KGVPH08XEBSNO86O1ZIV/Ascending-+Nina+and+Nat.JPG New Work - Ascending 2020 Size: 36” x 52” Simple abstract design with clean contrast and movement. Silk fabrics give extra light shimmer to these deep colors. SOLD. Commissioned by Nina and Nat Shoehalter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1617397201854-O6QGHUWX0N27PEEOQSB6/IMG-2874.JPG New Work - Suez Canal- March 2021 2021 Size: 6” h x 8” w Donation to SAQA auction On March 23rd this year, the Ever Given container ship got wedged into the East bank of the Suez Canal. It remained blocking Marine traffic for 4 or more days (still counting), with dozens of ships stuck at both the north and south entrances to the shortest route between Asia and Africa. Presumably driven by high sandstorm winds, the poor visibility and the enormous size of the ship, one of the world's largest cargo vessels, caused it to slew sideways and block the width of the canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1603342724536-YZ7JGFKW2JD9VXUKA7YI/Submission+%231_Bardach_Social+Distancing.JPG New Work - Social Distancing 2020 Size: 55”h x 41”w Price: $3000 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1641414226048-VQF0231UJLSNUDXF6XFV/Screen+Shot+2022-01-05+at+12.22.00+PM.png New Work - Tinman 2021 Old quilting pattern, revisited, renewed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1597014850200-HKLGMNAW2EY38HPUM0AM/BardachBendingTheCurve.JPG New Work http://nancybardach.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1628210167512-5S8YVK97OES1LK2ZD1ZJ/ReboundFull.JPG Covid-19_Pandemic_My recent Artwork - Rebound 2020 Size: 43”h x 30”w Price: $2500 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1628210167512-5S8YVK97OES1LK2ZD1ZJ/ReboundFull.JPG Covid-19_Pandemic_My recent Artwork - Rebound 2020 Size: 43”h x 30”w Price: $2500 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1603343970690-8FYMRN3RLPHKC9DKAMDE/Bardach_Nancy_Sideways.JPG Covid-19_Pandemic_My recent Artwork - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1603344986391-KY51SFDNQEJX0KMJDZQJ/Bardach_Nancy_Contagion.JPG Covid-19_Pandemic_My recent Artwork - 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. http://nancybardach.com/new-gallery-3 daily 0.75 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1703023091513-TKI9BQ2IHW7IAT7JVQIZ/P1080706.JPG Collaborations - African Influence 2012 Size: approximately double bed. SOLD in Artists’ trade Commissioned by an artist who chose many of these 'ethnic' fabrics from my 'stash', this piece is influenced by the metal sculptures of a Ghanaian metal assemblage artist, El Anatsui. Its dynamic play of light and shapes creates a bas-relief look, and its irregular edges evoke the roughness of el Anatsui's wall hangings. Design imagery references El Anatsui bottle cap wired pieces, as seen at the de Young and many other museums worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1703023091513-TKI9BQ2IHW7IAT7JVQIZ/P1080706.JPG Collaborations - African Influence 2012 Size: approximately double bed. SOLD in Artists’ trade Commissioned by an artist who chose many of these 'ethnic' fabrics from my 'stash', this piece is influenced by the metal sculptures of a Ghanaian metal assemblage artist, El Anatsui. Its dynamic play of light and shapes creates a bas-relief look, and its irregular edges evoke the roughness of el Anatsui's wall hangings. Design imagery references El Anatsui bottle cap wired pieces, as seen at the de Young and many other museums worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1694279040146-O5N78095HDHBO78HUGJU/Improv+Exotics.JPG Collaborations - Improv Exotics 2021 Size: 43”h x 39”w NFS Artists: Cindi Cossen (with Nancy Bardach) Collaborative design of a fabric collage, using random fabric scraps to form flowers. We worked together on the cutting and placement of the appliques on the naturalistic, flowing base fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693975037138-MOB5M6IO5G3ETPGT7ZCB/Cossen_Cindi_Sunflowers+From+the+Past_full.JPG Collaborations - Sunflowers from the Past 2020 Size: 28”h x 23”w NFS Painted petals from the past, from a popular “painting on fabric” workshop Cindi took in about 2010 from quilter Phil Beaver. She recently placed them on a sunlit, tie-dyed background she made. Assembled into a new, whole design they created a windy sunflower garden. Artist: Cindi Cossen. Quilting and assembly by Nancy Bardach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1712088696596-CUI818WC6H7CLFNUFBWN/Still+and+Stiller_in+Memorium+for+Cindi+Cossen.jpg Collaborations - Still and Stiller 2023 Size: 80” high x 59” wide NFS (not for sale) Elegant ink line drawings of cats in a traditional (“Bow Tie”) quilt pattern, with the bow ties set erratically in the grid. Collaboration with Cindi Cossen. Shown in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023) and at Voices in Cloth 2024, an EBHQ exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693976327739-LSCPR4NPP05N8ETBXLHS/Bardach_Nancy_Ark+of+Poetry_2500+pix.JPG Collaborations - Ark of the Spirit 2022 Size: 72” high x 53” wide Price: $1250 Peaceful introspection and a light wind at the window curtain. Poetry, quotations, and flowers create the mood. Printed fabrics by artist Anne Germanacos with poetry quotations from members of her synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1710481078542-3MENAMCGEVHMW4CMWJE9/Tikkun+Olam_full.JPG Collaborations - Tikkun Olam (Saving the Earth) Varying the earth’s history and fate over time is an obligation for all of us. Sweeping rivers of dark blue stitchery and machine quilting texture intimate the flow of eons required. The title “Tikkun Olam” is a Hebrew saying counseling us to ‘save the world’ each in our own way. This piece is a collaboration with Cindi Cossen, an old friend who became unable to sew. I extended several abandoned squares from Cindi’s studio, adding new imagery, colors and fabrics into a larger whole. Her earth-like spheres are surface-appliqued , recycled from another of her projects, inspiring the theme ideas and title. Materials: Cottons, batting, texturing machine sewn threads, handwork by embroidery threads. Shows: appeared in the Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693974233983-QKO9FM30JY3MKXETRW1M/ElbowKissFull.JPG Collaborations - Elbow Kiss 2020 Size: 44” x 44” Donated (NFS) 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. Source of historical square: Cindi Cossen’s workshop stash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1693975168671-6RNGZW5CNNJI5LU4GL6K/Bardach_Nancy_Jia%27s+Dragon+-+full_600+pix.JPG Collaborations - Jia's Dragon 2019 12” x 12” Price: not available; private collection. Jia’s Dragon is based on a fantasy dragon sketched by my granddaughter Jia. http://nancybardach.com/maintenance-mode daily 0.75 2013-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1372202493712-YOTI17SQ4FHMMQKWQO03/image-asset.jpeg Maintenance Mode http://nancybardach.com/artists-statement-and-description-of-work daily 0.75 2023-12-29 http://nancybardach.com/resume daily 0.75 2026-02-14 http://nancybardach.com/contact-information-1 daily 0.75 2018-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5164ff77e4b018661c5e820d/1518982662507-7AH6CLD67UTV5AJ4AWSV/Bardach_Nancy_Gift+to+the++City_20x24.JPG Contact Information Gift to the City - 2014 The San Francisco Bay Bridge lights with the Port of Oakland beyond http://nancybardach.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-02-07