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| My mother taught me how to sew when I was a young girl. Growing up a middle child and the only girl in a house with four sports playing brothers, I found sewing to be one activity I could call my own. My engagement and connection with sewing and cloth created a broad yet personal exploration of self-expression.
My work integrates weaving, sewing, embroidery, felt making, paper making, printing and dyeing into sculptural forms that persist in making reference to the body in all of its physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual connotations. The sculptural forms I create take on the quality of skins or hides and containers or vessels. The materials I use, linen, wool, used cloth and clothing, paper and beeswax create multiple and complex layers. These materials help me to articulate my ideas about containment, loss, memory and association. The history of textiles is impressive and expressive. Working within this field has allowed me the opportunity to engage in a rich aesthetic tradition while exploring concepts that are both unique and appealing to me and universal to a wider audience. | |
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2008 Living in the Margins, Stories of Extra-ordinary Angelenos, in collaboration with artist Mercedes McDonald, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Attachments, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA 2004 The Accretion of Small Gestures, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Max Gatov Galleries, CSULB 2002 Untouched, M. Merlino Gallery, California State University Long Beach, CA
2008 Forms in Wood and Fiber, New So. California Work, Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA California Dreaming, Leepa Rattner Museum, Tampa, FL California Fibers, juror Sandra Sider, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA 2007 Faculty Biennial, Pine Street Gallery, Long Beach, CA Versus, a collaboration with Mercedes McDonald, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA The Open Show, juror Howard Fox of LACMA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Carol Shaw-Sutton & Friends, Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA In the Grand Scheme: California Fibers at Convergence, Grand Rapids, MI 2005 Faculty Biennial, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Designing Weavers: A Retrospective, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA Subversive Stitch, Reynolds Gallery at University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Talking in Circles, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. Fiber as Medium, curator: Carol Shaw-Sutton, John Wayne International Airport, Irvine, Ca. Beyond Warp and Weft, Cannon Gallery, Oceanside, CA Low Altitude/High Attitude, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Univ.of CO, Colorado Springs, CO Insights 2004, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Found Object, Assemblage, juror: George Herms Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2003 Touch, curator: Carol ShawSutton, Max Gatov Galleries, CSULB, Long Beach, CA Elemental Fiber, La Jolla Fiber Arts, La Jolla, CA A Sense of Fiber, invitational, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA Transitions: New Work, invitational. Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Faculty Biennial, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA 2001 Outside the Box, juror Beth Smith, (Asst. Director, Oceanside Museum of Art), Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA Adventures in Artistic Expression; The Odyssey Show, a collaboration between Visual Artists and Creative Writers, California State University Long Beach, CA 2000 Ceramic & Fiber Arts Invitational, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA 1999 Ultimate Fibers/California Connections, invitational, Wignal Museum and Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA California Fibers, Emerald Plaza Exhibition, San Diego, CA Connections 2, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 1991 Fiber National 1991, juror Lia Cook, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New York (catalog) |
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Distinguished Creative Achievement Award, College of the Arts, CSULB, 2004 Merit Award Insights 2004 exhibition, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Merit Award Insights 2002 exhibition, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA The Joy of Life Insights 2001 exhibition, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Fiber Department Graduate Student of the Year CSULB, 2000 |
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| M.F.A. Fiber 2004 California State University Long Beach Teaching Credential, Multiple Subjects 1989 California State University Dominguez Hills B.F.A. Textile Design 1981 California State University Long Beach Penland School of Crafts 1991, 1993 Penland, North Carolina Appalachian Center for Crafts 1982 Smithville, Tennessee |
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