White 10:78
Cotton, silk, cheesecloth, paint, graphite
43”h x 51w
2004 photo: Karen Bell
Jeanne Lyons Butler transforms layers of handmade paper, canvas, cheesecloth and other textured fibers into pale, sparse expanses of white punctuated with oil paint and graphite. The Long Island artist has exhibited extensively in the New York area and is a regular participant in the juried exhibit of the Dairy Barn Cultural Center in Athens, Ohio. She is a graduate of CW Post College of Long Island University with a BFA in painting and drawing.
These variations in white are most definitely not quilts but rather artworks that happen to incorporate various fiber media in deceptively simple but subtle arrangements. The tactility of the media adds dimension and depth to the process.. Limiting the elements and the range of color in these serene and tranquil compositions, she shows her mastery of balance and scale. It is summed up in her statement, “I yield to a sense of quiet in my work”.
Dorothy Twining Globus
Curator of Exhibitions
Museum of Arts & Design
New York
For more information :www.jeannelyonsbutler.com
Doll Brain Tracts (detail)
Rayon, woven
72"x51"
2011
Lia Cook's groundbreaking textiles are considered by collectors and museums alike to be among the most exciting work in contemporary art today. Using a digital jacquard loom and family photographs and snapshots, Cook converts pixels into threads, creating monumental works that blur distinctions between technology, weaving, painting, and photography. Most recently she's introduced brain imaging and the neuroscientific complexities of human response - including response to her own works - into her art.
Currently Professor of Art at California College of Arts and Crafts and Chair of the Textile Department, Cook is the recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She’s been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally for more than 25 years, including a retrospective organized by the French government, and a traveling exhibition organized by the Oakland Museum and shown at the Smithsonian. Her works are in the permanent collections of more than two dozen museums including Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, The National Collection in France, De Young Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Musee Bellerieve in Switzerland.
For more information: www.liacook.com
Healing Sutra #20
Hand embroidery on antique hankerchief, stained with walnut ink
12x12"
To stitch a thread or line that holds things together is the literal translation of the ancient Sanskrit word "sutra".
Thus in her recent series of challenging and sometimes disturbing pieces called Healing Sutras, Erin Endicott uses contemporary embroidery on antique fabrics as a vehicle to explore the common threads that bind the often painful experience of countless generations of women. These profound and finely detailed works have found a ready audience in galleries and juried exhibitions across the country and in Europe.
In 2010 the New Jersey artist was Awarded Best in Show for Healing Sutra #3, in the FiberArt International, the Pittsburgh triennial. Endicott has a BFA in textile design from Moore College of Art and was apprenticed with Waterlily Weavers in Coldstream, Scotland.
For more information: www.erinendicottart.com
Protective Nurture
vintage anatomy book, reeds, silk, found materials
70' x 24 x 25
2010
Guided by a strong design aesthetic and inspired by patterns of replication and repetition found in nature, Sandra Jane Heard transforms natural materials and man-made objects into multi-dimensional pieces. Her assemblage techniques and keen use of space and light bring an expressive, minimalistic form to the works, despite their intricately detailed construction.
Heard is a member of a unique generation of artists born in the UK between 1960 and 1970 and formally educated in the arts during the 1980s, a time when vividly experimental and highly conceptualized art was becoming the norm. And like two of the more notable members of this generation of Young British Artists - Grayson Perry (2003 Turner Prize) and Jake Chapman (2003 Turner Prize Nominee) - Heard completed her Arts Foundation course at Braintree College before pursuing several more years of studio training, apprenticeships, and formal degrees. Her own credentials also include 2 yrs in the Science of Textiles at Huddersfield University in Yorkshire, and a BFA with High Distinction from the California College of Arts.
After her CCA degree in 1994, the artist enjoyed a two year run of solid sales, critical praise, and nearly a dozen shows. But with the birth of her first son, she began a self-imposed hiatus that would last until 2007 . With the support of a growing arts community in her family's adopted home of Perrysburg, Heard began participating in juried exhibitions, including three annual Fiber Arts shows at the 577 Foundation (where she awarded the Peoples Choice Award) and the highly competitive 2010 Ohio + 5 at the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio. In June, 2010 she mounted a solo show at River House Arts.
Dream Worlds - Hope
Wool, silk, linen
60.5” x 23.75”
2008
Susan Iverson’s works are bold in graphics, color, and scale. A resident of rural Hanover, Virginia, Iverson is a Professor in the School of the Arts, Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Her tapestries have been exhibited throughout the United States and are included in many private and institutional collections including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Iverson earned a MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and a BFA from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
A move from the city to the country has altered the way I look at and interact with the natural world. I have become an obsessive observer of this world. Life on a secluded, woodland pond provides countless opportunities to observe both major and minor events. These tapestries are reflections of my observations and ruminations. The sense of place and my attachment to the environment are major aspects of this work. I am influenced by both the physical landscape around me and the remembered landscapes that haunt me.
For more information : susaniversonart.com
Materialize
pencil stubs
19x10x10
2005
Jennifer Maestre has gained international recognition for her sensuously formed sculptures. After turning pencil points into beads by drilling holes into each, Maestre weaves them - thousands of them - with thread or wire into a unique fabric. With this she creates flexible forms, her soft shapes reminiscent of animals in nature. And while the surface texture created by a mass of pointed ends can be alluring, they are intimidatingly sharp and unforgiving.
Originally from South Africa, Maestre has a BFA from the Massachusetts college of art and a BA in art from Wellesley. Her work appears in galleries and juried shows around the world and was included in the SOFA Expo in New York. Her work can also be seen in the collections of both the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts and the Davis Museum at Wellesly College.
For more information: http://www.jennifermaestre.com/
Hair Petticoat (detail)
hair, found clothing,
12" x 12" x 11"
2009
Sculptor Stephanie Metz investigates the relationship between humans and other animals in a unique and engaging medium:felted wool. The Bay Area native utilizes a laborious craft technique - needle felting - to shape wool fibers into solid free-standing sculptures that merge art, and science. Metz's creatures contribute to the ongoing dialog surrounding the human demands that affect the biological world. (Oakland Gallery)
Metz's works have been shown in venues in San Francisco, New York, and Stockholm, and are held in numerous private collections. She has also appeared in national and international art and design magazines including Craft Magazine, Zink, Object Magazine (Australia), Showroom (Russia), Gallery (Ukraine), Felt Matters (UK), Icon Magazine (UK), ArtWeek, and countless blogs. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Metz and now lives, works, and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work can be found at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and New York.
For more information: www.stephaniemetz.c
Tonal Warp Stripe(detail above)
Linen, raimie, weaving, burning
96x27x23
John Paul Morabito’s beautifully woven, ephemeral cloth patterned with carefully placed burn marks can be found in the Spring 2011 issue of Fiberarts Magazine in the Emerging Artists Showcase. He's also included in the 2010 International Fiber Art show, now travelling the country.
The Brooklyn based artist has been dedicated to the art of the loom for nearly a decade and his work has been shown at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, the Lancaster Museum of Art, the Cleveland State University Gallery, and the Suffolk Museum. He received a BFA in fiber from the Maryland Institute College if Art in 2005. Morabito is also a commercial textile designer.
Hand processes manipulate materials to create both form and content in my artwork. I begin at the loom, building cloth line by line. Once woven, the work is deconstructed—either through an immediate intervention or a slow, mediated process. In all cases, the cyclic relationship of creation and destruction is at the heart of the work.
for more information: johnpaulmorabito.com
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