Material matters catalogue

Material Matters

Work by the Vermont Chapter of Surface Design Arts International

June 3, 2016 – June 28, 2016

Material Matters New work by

Members of the Vermont chapter of Surface Design Arts International June 3, 2016 – June 28, 2016 Frog Hollow Gallery, Burlington, VT

Frog Hollow Craft Association Inc FROG HOLLOW IS DEDICATED TO THE EXPOSURE AND APPRECIATION OF VERMONT FINE ART AND CRAFT. THROUGH SALES, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATION, IT EXISTS TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND TO PROMOTE THE AWARENESS OF THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE HANDCRAFTED.

Staff Rob Hunter Executive Director

Founder Allen Johnson

Frog Hollow Craft Association Board of Directors Carol MacDonald- President Lynne Bond - Vice President Rachel Morton - Secretary Eileen Blackwood - Treasurer Susan Raber Bray

Frog Hollow Gallery Board of Directors Liz Lawrence - President Cody McKibben Kevin Ruelle - Secretary

MATERIAL MATTERS

An Exhibit by Members of the Vermont Chapter of the Surface Design Association.

Material Matters is an exhibition of current work by members of the Vermont chapter of the International Surface Design Association. Surface design is any process that gives structure, pattern or color to fiber and mixed materials - such as felting, spinning, paper making, weaving, knotting, netting, looping, stitching, cutting, piecing, dyeing, painting, printing and embellishing.

Fiber artists are doing some of the most innovative work in the art world today, fearlessly exploring a variety of surface design techniques and fiber materials. Pieces in this show include both 2 and 3 dimensional forms that range from knitted knotweed sculpture, woven scarves, quilted and woven wall art, to mounted framed pieces featuring fiber and acrylic paint. Artists exhibiting in Material Matters include: Jackie Abrams, Judy Dales, Rosalind Daniels, Elizabeth Fram, Marilyn Gillis, Karen Henderson, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Ruby Leslie, Marya Lowe, Almuth Palinkas, Leslie Roth, Dianne Shullenberger, Ellen Spring, Sharon Webster and Betsy Wing.

Surface Design Association (SDA) is a nonprofit textile arts organization founded in 1977. SDA promotes international awareness and appreciation of fiber, textiles and new materials. Members include artists, designers, educators, students, curators, gallery owners and textile enthusiasts from around the world. Students qualify for reduced membership rates. New members are invited to join at www.surfacedesign.org

Jackie Abrams

Standing in Strength $2300 or may be priced individually Woven forms with surface applications. Cotton and rice papers, acrylic paint and mediums, wire, encaustic wax, copper foil, buttons, waxed linen thread.

Judy B. Dales

Wild Woods 16� x13�, $960 Cotton fabric and batting, cotton, poly and rayon thread.

Machine pieced and quilted.

Judy B. Dales

Under The Sea 11� x 22�, $875 Cotton, tulle and netting, acrylic paint, rayon thread.

Screen printing, painted, stamped fused, quilted.

Rosalind S. Daniels Roadside Flowers 12� x 24�, $500 Cotton fabrics, machine pieced and quilted.

Rosalind S. Daniels Tomatoes 14� x 21�, $400 Cotton fabrics, machine pieced and quilted

Elizabeth Fram

Knot 8” x 8” (9.5 x 9.5” framed), $350 Raw silk, silk organza, paint, thread. Painted and stitched.

Elizabeth Fram

Parterre 2 12” x 12” (13.5” x 13.5” framed), $600 Raw silk, Silk organza, Paint, Thread.

Painted and stitched.

Marilyn Gillis

Strata 1 16” x 40” x 1.5”, $1200 Silk organza, artist paper, acrylic paint. Hand marbled, hand painted.

Marilyn Gillis

Strata 2 16” x 40” x 1.5”, $1200 Silk organza, artist paper, acrylic paint. Hand marbled, hand painted.

Karen Henderson

Wishing While Fishing 26� x 16�, $1500 Hemp and cotton fabrics; shibori, dye, acrylic, with hand stitching.

Karen Henderson

Still 12� x 12�, $750 Cotton gauze and linen; shibori, dye, color removal, color pencil, with machine and hand stitching. UV protective varnish.

Eve Jacobs-Carnahan Shorebird Peril 10” x 12” x 12”, $650 Handspun and commercial yarn, wood, copper, found objects; knitting.

Eve Jacobs-Carnahan Knotweed Not Safe 14” x 18” x 15”, $775 Handspun and commercial wool yarns, wire; knitting.

Ruby Leslie

Beribboned Diamonds 15� x 75�, $2000 Tencel, silk, rayon ribbon.

Diversified plain weave; hand twisted fringe.

Ruby Leslie

Dreaming of Taos 14� x 107�, $2000 Tencel, silk, rayon ribbon.

Diversified Plain Weave, hand twisted fringe.

Ruby Leslie

Ruffled Rose 5” x 100”, $2000 Tencel, silk, merino, bamboo.

Loom controlled ruffles.

Marya Lowe

Morning Glory 22� x 22�, $515 Cotton fabrics. Fused, machine quilted.

Marya Lowe

Poppy I 21� x 22�, $495 Cotton, silk, hand-dyed fabrics, Fused, machine quilted.

Almuth Palinkas

Gold Goes By 2 14” x 14”, $625 Tapestry weave in cotton, mounted on linen.

Almuth Palinkas

On My Way Square 1 12” x 12”, $600 Art Textile, Moorman Technique (supplementary warp, supplementary weft).

Leslie Roth

Dinner Guest 8” x 23” x 10”, $425 Wool yarn, hand made paper, polymer clay, recyclables and wire for armature, glue, duct tape. Hand knitting, paper making, sewing.

Leslie Roth

Star Watcher 7” x 28” x 5.5’, $375 Wool yarn, hand made paper, polymer clay, recyclables and wire for armature, glue, duct tape.

Dianne Shullenberger Eucalyptus 46” x 16”, $2500 Natural object collage of Eucalyptus leaves, bark and driftwood.

Dianne Shullenberger Four Hearts: 12� circle, $600 Natural object: ferns, bamboo, thread, flower pods, hand made paper.

Ellen Spring

Birch Dryad 20” x 6” x 6”, $300 Metallic thread and ribbon, wood, silk, polymer clay.

Ellen Spring

I Ching 5” x 4” x 4”, $150 Wood, silk, thread, paper.

Sharon Webster

Up Close, At A Distance 21” x 42” x 7”, $500 Wood, twine, transparent blouse, colored photography of handwritten script.

Betsy Wing

Spring Symphony 29” x 29”, $1500 Handwoven tapestry with cotton warp and hand dyed wool weft.

Betsy Wing

Melodic Journey 20” x 20”, $800 Handwoven tapestry with cotton warp and hand dyed wool weft.

Artist Bios

Jackie Abrams Brattleboro, VT Jackie has been a basketmaker since 1975, when she first apprenticed to an 81-year-old traditional white ash basketmaker. Since 1990, she has been exploring plaiting techniques, the use of heavy cotton paper as a material, and the possibilities of contemporary basketry. She exhibits her work at shows, galleries and museums, and has been included in numerous books.

Her work is in many collections, most notably the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She has received grants from both the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation. She teaches throughout the US, Australia, Canada, and Ghana.

Judy B. Dales Greensboro, VT Judy Dales began making quilts in 1970, focusing originally on geometric patterns of her own design, but soon moving on to fluid designs comprised of curved lines and lyrical shapes. The invention of techniques that enabled her to transform original drawings into pieced quilts allowed her work to blossom into fantasy-filled abstract or impressionistic designs.

She uses commercially printed fabric and manages to produce a subtle, painterly effect using a wide variety of prints This legendary skill with color combined with her affinity for organic, curvilinear designs produces unique and distinctive art quilts.

Judy is a member of the Surface Design Association, a juried artist member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, served on the board of the Vermont Craft Council for more than five years, and is president of Caspian Arts in Greensboro, VT. She has written three books, and taught art and design to fiber artists worldwide for many years.

Rosalind S. Daniels Cabot, VT I grew up in Richmond, Virginia admiring my mother who was a home economics teacher and my aunts who traveled the world.

After working as a Mathematician, I joined the Peace Corps to teach math in the South Pacific--my first encounter with radiant tropical fabrics and the exuberant combinations that were worn every day. After working in Peace Corps administration, my husband and I began a 10-year journey overseas for his work. It was in Pakistan that a woman from Indiana taught me the basics of quilting. My work became more original as we continued to move and as the children grew.

Our move to rural Vermont has given me new inspirations as I am surrounded by interesting shapes and varying palettes. It has also given me the opportunity to study art at local colleges and, now, the time to focus on the fabric I've collected and the geometric shapes I love.

Elizabeth Fram Waterbury Center, VT Born and raised on the coast of Maine, Elizabeth Fram received a BA with honors in Art from Middlebury College, later studying graphic design at the (now) Maine College of Art. She has worked as a graphic designer and as a freelance illustrator, concentrating her studio practice on textile collage for the past 20 years. Travel to Asia and time spent living in Hawaii, San Francisco and Washington state have strongly influenced her aesthetic.

Her work has appeared and been written about in various publications, most recently the 2014 book “TextileArt around the world”. She has exhibited nationally and in France, and is included in numerous private collections throughout the US. She is a Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, a member of the Surface Design Association, and serves on the board of Across Roads Center for the Arts in Waterbury, Vermont.

Marilyn Gillis Burlington, VT I have spent my adult life doing four important things: raising a daughter, teaching, working for feminist causes, and creating art. I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in human development and education. For forty years I taught high school, undergraduate and graduate college courses in human development. Most of my community and volunteer work has been for feminist agencies and causes. My feminist work and beliefs have inspired much of my art, as has my love of nature and native cultures of the world. For the past twenty years I have focused on surface design processes and have used the fabrics and papers I make through these processes to create mixed media art and stitched and layered textiles . Art is a way to document my life, my ideas, and my feelings and it is the primary way I feed my soul.

Karen Henderson Montpelier, VT Karen Henderson began her artistic life growing up in Bucks County, PA. She first studied fine arts with an emphasis on printmaking, afterwards decided to pursue her own studies for a few years, focusing mainly on batik. This passion led Karen back to school to immerse in the study of textiles. She learned weaving and print design in the textile design program at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After graduating, Karen worked as a Textile Designer in the wallpaper industry, while in her spare time pursuing her personal artwork in fabric collage. Then an opportunity took her to the woods of northwestern New Jersey to work at Peters Valley Craft School, running their two fiber departments. There, Karen was able to get back to a more serious studio practice for her wall art, while building her freelance textile/surface design business.

Eve Jacobs-Carnahan Montpelier, VT Eve Jacobs-Carnahan is a sculptor who works with yarn. Eve learned to knit as a child from her mother. Not content to knit mittens and sweaters, she was thrilled to discover the artwork of Katharine Cobey, Freddie Robins, and other artists pushing the boundaries of knitting. Eve has studied spinning and dyeing to expand her artistic tools and enable her to create and control the color and texture of the yarns with which she works.

She has also learned methods of making sculpture armatures by bending, twisting, and carving shapes from wire, reed, and solid foam.

Eve has been exhibiting her knitted artwork in small museums and galleries across the U.S. since 2002. Her artwork has won several awards, most recently the First Place/Mary R. Koch Memorial Prize in the Fiber Directions National Exhibition 2015 at the Wichita Center for the Arts. Her sculpture is included in the book Astounding Knits! 101 Spectacular Knitted Creations and Daring Feats by Lela Nargi (Voyageur Press 2011). She lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where it is rarely too hot to knit.

Ruby Leslie Hardwick, VT Ruby Leslie learned to weave more than 25 years ago when her children were toddlers. Within a few years, what started out as a creative hobby grew into a full-time career designing and weaving unique textiles and teaching at national conferences and weavers’ guilds. With a studio in Hardwick, Vermont, she designs her line of handwovens under the name Ruby Charuby Weavings. Ruby’s textiles are known for their subtle gradations of color and iridescence, and rich textures.

Marya Lowe Jericho, VT I began my quilting journey over 40 years ago as a very traditional quilter.

I even parlayed my interest and wide-ranging study of quilts and textiles into a business restoring antique quilts. But in 2007 I became intrigued by a simple design on a Venetian glass tumbler, and that was enough to turn me to contemporary art with textiles as my primary medium. Now I attempt to convey abstract and painterly motifs in my fiberworks. I often return to a construct of busy pieced or fused blocks, which I call “wonkies”, set against a calm background -- perhaps a metaphor for my life's daily patterns.

Almuth Palinkas Barre, VT

I was born in northern Germany and grew up in northern Illinois, near Chicago. After attending Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin (B.A., 1968), I began to pursue tapestry weaving. I happened upon a rigid-heddle, children’s loom in the toy department of Marshall Field’s department store.

That toy loom and a book by Nell Znamierowski, Weaving Step by Step, were a revelation to me which helped me weave my first wall hanging.

I took classes in drawing and textiles at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which led me to study art history at the University of Chicago (M.A., 1973) where I also worked as a curatorial assistant in the Oriental and the Textile Departments. Following which, I concentrated on making art textiles, for myself and on commission, and on drawing and painting.

Moving to New York City, I worked as a free-lance textile designer while continuing my own work in textiles, studying drawing and painting, both independently at Cooper Union and National Academy School of Art. I occasionally taught tapestry-weaving workshops at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and at Maine College of Art Continuing Education Program in Portland, Maine.

Leslie Roth Montpelier, VT Leslie Roth has been knitting for most of her life. She began knitting nonfunctional objects when her children were babies, making toys and costumes for them. As the costumes became more elaborate, like a chimera with three heads, she ventured into sculptural knitting. She has since included other materials and techniques into her work. In addition to making art, she currently designs and writes knitting patterns. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont with her husband and children.

Dianne Shullenberger Jericho, VT Dianne Shullenberger creates intimate fabric landscapes, sculptures and colored pencil drawings. In her fiber artwork, Dianne uses hundreds of pieces of fabric and fiber scraps to convey the random beauty and mystery of nature. Her sculptures reflect the grace of natural shapes while incorporating elements such as feathers, rocks, leaves, pods and sticks. A passionate outdoor woman, Dianne’s art reflects the places she loves.

Numerous museums and galleries have exhibited Dianne’s work in both solo and group shows. She has been recognized with awards and feature publications. Her work is regularly commissioned and displayed in corporate, museum and private collections.

Dianne’s studio and the Shullenberger Gallery are located in Jericho Vermont. During the summer, she works at her tree house studio on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Ellen Spring Starksboro, VT After graduating from UVM with an Art major, I settled in Starksboro with my husband in 1989. Most of my studio time is devoted to creating a line of hand dyed silk wearables which I have been doing for over thirty years. To keep my brain agile, every winter I take time off from production to work on a series of small sculptures.

Sharon Webster Burlington, VT Sharon Webster is a visual artist and poet. Her book of poems and art, Everyone Lives Here, was published by Fomite Press in 2014. Prior to that, Webster self-published seven chapbooks of poems.

In her visual art, Webster creates engaging sculptural assemblages and paintings that reflect her love of form, intimacy, language, and the beauty of everyday things. Art critic, Christopher Faris, describes her work as “… poignantly expressive…images of the world as seen from within.”

Webster taught Word and Image and other art and writing classes at Burlington College and Community College of Vermont for over a decade.

She works with developmentally challenged adults through Home Base, Inc. and has for many years.

Betsy Wing Woodstock, VT After earning a Bachelor of Fine Art I spent most of my life as a professional musician playing French horn and then teaching music in the public schools. On retiring from the musical world and moving to Vermont I decided to focus on my long time pastime of weaving.

I took several classes which led to weaving clothing and accessories which I sold at craft shows. Eventually I began to think of a slower pace of life and explored weaving tapestry. I became captivated with the slow contemplative process and with the direction into the field of art.

My tapestries are abstract designs often using geometric shapes and subtle color gradations. With these two elements and minimum detail I hope to achieve beauty and balance.

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