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Marking Time #1 Stitched cotton broadcloth and pigmented gauze 
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Marking Time #3 Stitched cotton broadcloth and pigmented gauze
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| My art quilts and fabric constructions are a natural outgrowth of my earlier work in printmaking and applied design. Current work in layered gauze is an exploration of the complexities of overlaid pattern and color; the viewer is invited to come closer to investigate the frayed threadwork details and the gentle tangle of complex overlapping forms.
In my new “Marking Time” series, the soft textile surface takes on new meaning. Time is flexible and ultimately ambiguous, so an attempt to tally time in neat rows with rigid marks is futile. Incremental layers of frayed gauzes blur the edges of the marks and become a metaphor for the complexity and ambiguity that clouds our understanding of time. |
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| 2008
Forms in Wood and Fiber: Southern California Work, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mt Quilt Museum, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
California Fibers: Natural Forces, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA
2007
Fabric of the Imagination, Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, CA
Art Quilts at the Adobe, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery, Vista, CA
Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mt Quilt Museum, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2006
Celebrations 3, La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA
California Art Quilts, California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA
On the Wall, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Bern/San Diego Quilt Challenge, Bern Switzerland, Houston TX, Lyon France, Ontario CA
2005
Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mt Quilt Museum, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
Double Take, Florence Events Center, Florence, OR
Fine Focus 04, assorted venues |
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Portfolio 14, Definitive Resource of Professional Quilt Artists 2007
Portfolio 13, Definitive Resource of Professional Quilt Artists 2006
On the Wall, University of Colorado, Exhibition color catalog 2006
Rooted in Tradition, Judith Trager and Heidi Row, The Donning Company 2005
Design! A Lively Guide to Design Basics, Steven Aimone/Lark Books 2004
The Fiber of Coronado, Exhibition color catalog 2003
Power of Art Award, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Washington, DC 2001 |
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| MA in Art (Graphics
and Design), Claremont Graduate University BA in Art, Occidental College |
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| website: marilyn.chaffeestudio.com | |