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Party Vase
 

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PRESSURE AND FORM

My work uses the technique of pleating as an expressive metaphor for reflecting a world that often seems pressured, random and experimental. Our personal landscapes must continually change in response to these fluid conditions. Pleating is used to manipulate or create pattern, to study the edges and boundaries of form, and to investigate the way pressure influences structure.

I strengthen these concepts by utilizing precious or unstable materials, such as vintage silks, limited edition Japanese fabric, or ordinary household waxpaper. Indigo dye is often used as a universal symbol since it is employed by nearly all cultures.
 
 
 
 
 
 
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2007
 Sep. 1 – Oct. 27: “Off the Wall,” Translations Gallery, Denver Colorado.
PARTIAL  RECENT EXHIBITION LIST                               Complete resume from l976 available upon request.
2007
 Mar. 16 – May 20:  Fiber Directions 2007,” Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas.  Juror: Jason Pollen
2006:
Oct. 7. – Nov. 12: –Installation (awarded):  “Miniartextil 2006;”  la tessitura, gallery/concept store of
 Mantero,  textile manufacturer, Como, Italy. Catalog.
Sept. 23 – Oct. 29:  ARELIS, Paris-based group exhibition, Compiègne, France.
June 5 – July 1:  Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; California Fibers group show.
June 19 – July 8:  Grand Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
 Feb. 8 – May 10: “Textile Arts Today,” SYNOPSIS Inc., Mountain View, CA.
Jan. 28 – Mar.26: “Materials: Hard & Soft,” Center for Visual Arts, Denton, TX. Juror: Lloyd Herman., Catalog.
2005
Oct. 21 – 30 :“Salon d’ Automne: 1905 – 2005,” ARELIS group; Parc Floral de Paris, Paris, France. Catalog.
Sept. 24 – Oct. 29:  “Filophilo –Miniartextil 2005, Como, Como, Italy:  3 works, by invitation.
Mar. 12 – 26: “2004 Miniartextil  à Montrouge,” Salons de l’Hotel de Ville, Montrouge, France
Jan. 8 – Feb 20:  “Handcrafted,” Rock Mounts Art Center,  N.C;  Juror: Jean McLaughlin, Dir., Penland School of Crafts.
2004
Sept. 25 – Oct. 30:  “Fili Spezzati – 2004 Miniartextil Como,” Como, Italy. Catalog.
                 Traveling: Dec. 18 – Jan. 23, 2005: Sassari, Sardinia, Italy; Mar. 12 – 26 2005.
 June 4 – July 30: Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO.
Apr. 27 – July 25: “Itinéraire de’un fil: naissance et mutations,” Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, France. Catalog.
Feb. 20 – Apr. 18: “California Fiber Art,” John Wayne Airport, Orange County, California.  Curator: Carol Shaw-Sutton.
2003
Mar. 7- April 20:  “Fiber Directions 2003,” Wichita (Kansas) Ctr. for the Arts.  Juror: Jason Pollen. Catalog.

Jan. 6 – Feb.28:  “L’Art de la Fibre/La Fibre de l’Art,” SEMA Gallery, Paris, France.  Curator: Denise Bigot/ARELIS.

Jan. 17 – Mar. 16: “Transitions:  New Work,” Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Carol Shaw-Sutton.
2002
Aug. 1 – 4: Two exhibitions:  “Cross Currents” and “New Wave,” Convergence 2002 Vancouver.
June 27 – Sept. 11:  “5th International Festival of Tapestry and Fiber Art,” Beauvais, France.  Catalog.
May 3 – 30: “California Design 2002,” California Contemporary Craft Association, San Francisco, CA. Juror: Kenneth Trapp.
Jan. 15 – Feb. 25: “Americas 2000: Paper Works,” Northwest Art Center, Minot(ND) State University.
2001
Sept. 7 – Oct. 27:  “Fiberart International,” Society for Contemporary Craft/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pa.
                            Jurors: Ann Bachelder, John Garrett, Kenneth Trapp. Catalog.
June 8 –   July 21: “Small Expressions,” St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, Missouri. Juror: Randall Darwall.
June 5 –  July 20:  “Crafts National 35,” Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa.
                            Juror: David Revere McFadden. Catalog.
2000
Nov.3 – Dec.3:  “Indigo: Bridging Cultures,” Textile Art Center; Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL. 
                          Juror: Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada.
  
 
Awards

2004 • International:  Mantero Award: Purchase prize & solo exhibition; “2004 Miniartextil Como,” Italy.

2002   • International: 3rd Place Award; “New Wave”; Convergence 2002 Vancouver.

2001 • International: Jason Pollen Award for Innovative Use of the Medium ; Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA.

Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship and Travel Scholarship, CSU Long Beach.

1997    •   National: NICHE Magazine Student Finalist – Philadelphia (PA) Buyers Market of American Craft.

PUBLICATIONS

►Surface Design Journal – Gallery Issue; Fall 2006.

►500 Baskets; Asheville, NC: Lark Books. Spring 2006. (2 works respresented.)

►Monica Engel, “2004 Miniartextil in Como,” Textileforum, (Dec. 04): P. 7.

►Fiberarts Design Book 7; Vol. 7: p. 43. Asheville, NC: Lark Books. Spring 2004.

►Patricia Malarcher interview with Jason Pollen, “Surface Design: Looking at a Quarter of a Century,” Surface Design Journal 25th Anniversary issue (Summer 2002): pp. 15 – 21; photo, p. 20.

►Mary Thomas, “Fiberart International ’01,” Fiberarts, (Jan/Feb 2002): pp 56-57.

►Graham Shearing, “Fiberart International: 17th Biennial Exhibition,” American Craft, (Dec. 01/Jan. 02): pp. 54-57.

JURIED MEMBERSHIPS : Association de Créateurs pour la Promotion de l’Art Textile (ARELIS), Paris, France

California Fibers 		  
 

BFA: California State University at Long Beach, CA, 2001; CSU Fullerton; Cornell University

CURRENT POSITION: Studio Artist

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