Please browse some of my work below.
43" x 29"
2024
34"h x 37"w
2024
35"H x 22"W
2023
33"H x 24"W
2023
42"h x 28"w
2024
2023
31”h x 23”w
44"h x 28"w
2023
2022
46”h x 22”w
2022
68”h x 40”w
2022
36” x 38” - 2020
Based on an original photograph. Juried into SAQA exhibit “Light the World” debuting at European Patchwork Meeting, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mains, France Sept. 16, 2021, moving to 14th International Quilt Show Brno, Czech Republic: April 22-24, 2022, multiple USA locations.
34” x 25” - 2019
Based on a photograph by Ava Freyer, used with permission. Juried into “Structures,” a SAQA online exhibit. https://www.saqa.com/art/online-galleries/structures-saqa-virtual-gallery
14” x 24” — 2019
Juried into the Berkeley Art Center Member Show 2019. Based on a photograph by Ava Freyer, used with permission.
2020
32”h x 28”w
Private collection
30" h x 43" w — 2017
from an original photograph
20”h x 17”w — 2019 From an original photo.
56"h x 21"w - 2015.
Juried into three shows: Visions Art Museum 2017, Hayward Art Show 2016, Urban Murmurs/Experience Art Fiber, 2016. Based on an original photo.
Private collection.
Sleep is precious.
29"h x 39"w
2016
In the permanent collection of the City of Berkeley. Juried into Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition, Dec. 2017 through Feb. 2019.
Tangled, chaotic dream-threads, both fading and darkening, both bright and muted, weave the detritus of the day’s worries against the ombré background of mutable sleep. War, suffering, injustice, poverty, conflict—ripple through the night. Stitching calms the mind toward its edges as sleep restores.
26"h x 40"w
2016
Cover photo for Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal, July, 2017.
Juried into San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles "Juncture II" show Nov. 29-Jan.18, 2018.
Sleep and wakefulness cross paths. Snarled stitching and fibrous debris interrupt a dark night’s sleep. Undulating linear dreams pull the wakeful mind from edge to edge, softening under layers of consciousness at the center. The mind quiets, shrouded by translucent covers. Shapes are indefinite, fluid, shifting. Unfinished stories, like loose threads and scraps, awaken repeatedly. But even in the struggle to sleep, there is inspiration.
Juried into three shows:
"Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition 2018" - 2180 Milvia St., Berkeley, CA. Dec. 2017 - Nov. 2018. Multiple jurors.
“Reclaiming Earth” – WEAD/Women Eco Artists Dialog, Jewett Gallery in SF Library, San Francisco, CA. Apr 8 – Jun 24, 2017. Juried by Donna Seager.
“Fantastic Fibers 2016” – Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, Apr 9-Jun 4. 2016. Juried by Danielle Kelly, Exec. Dir., Surface Design Assoc.
Salvaged and recycled fibers move through color ranging dark to light, evoking the journey from sleep to wakefulness. Scraps of thread are repurposed to move the eye through subtle linear paths, suggesting the cycle of sleep’s rest as it is transformed to a new dawn’s vitality.
2019
Juried into “Art Quilts” - Sebastopol Center For the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, Jan 11-Feb 16, 2020.
23"h x 24"w
"Inspirations II" at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA. May 5-Jul 3, 2016. Juried by Terry Jerrard-Dimond.
Sleeplessness, undesired for most, is an interior muse for me. Even closed eyes cannot block the random retinal fireworks of insomnia. Color, line, and pattern convey the dual pulls of sleep and imagination. The calm, dark pull of rest competes with the variegated reds of haphazard visual noise. Moving lines of texture evoke restlessness. My intention is to suggest the hidden message or solution in an apparent challenge.
19"h x 19"w
Juried into "Local Color" Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT & The Gallery, Folsom, CA. Jun 1, 2017-Mar 8, 2018
Who can sleep through blood cell display inside my eyelids. Color, line, and pattern convey the duality of sleeplessness. Moving lines of texture evoke restlessness. The visual noise of red dominates the darks of desired unconsciousness. Appliqué, hand embroidery, free-motion quilting dazzle with line, texture, color.
Issues in our world—cultural, political, personal.
2023
27”h x 27”w
34" h x 35" w
Forced out of their homes by war, poverty, fear, or oppression, migrants are estranged from their origins, their destinations, and their dangerous paths. Tangled threads, strings, stitching--some reach resolution, some are diverted by loss and limbo. Their routes meander and intersect, creating new challenges---shapes and texture. Knots and shadows block the way.
Juried into “No Boundaries” by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Virginia Quilt Museum, 2023.
29”h x 57”w — 2020 — What a year. Private collection.
48”h x 24” w 2020
Juried into Art=Quilts=Art, Schweinfurth Art Center, 2022
2018 * 25” x 20”
Not all damage can be mended. Stitching darns some wounds but ragged edges and loose fibers suggest the ongoing crisis of children dying on our streets, jails, and detention camps. Strong color-contrast evokes emotions; streaming, organic stitching bleeds foreground to background. Loose gauze varies the linear movement and suggests a shroud or mask. Recycled linens evoke home and comfort and become a face, albeit indigo-dyed and punctuated with velvet blood-reds. Quietly, the pastels of the sky-like backdrop flow, floating pain.
Juried into Kala/City of Berkeley 2019-21 Civic Center Art Exhibition.
15"h x 13"w - 2015
These quilts are intended to inspire viewer to consider the origins and future of this urgent issue.
Juried into SAQA show “Shifting Tides” a SAQA show.
Heat ripples through our Pacific Ocean as her currents undulate to sister oceans across the planet. Sinuous stitching lines and fluid shapes suggest streaming, bubbling movement. Color suggests both coolness and warmth, and perhaps a disturbing muddiness. A bright line breaks the flowing shapes, radiating change. Our oceans are connected but troubled. Since 1880, ocean temperatures have been tracked; they show a warming trend, with some dips in the mid-twentieth century. But no dips have been recorded since 1985. Warmer oceans now surge through the planet, affecting sea life, food security, weather, coastal habitats throughout the world. What is our next step?
2019
60” x 29”
private collection
2018 * 41” x 30”
Juried into City of Berkeley/Kala Civic Center 2019-20 show.
Have I dined on my own jacket? Colorful, shiny detritus floats among the layers of an abstracted aquatic habitat of undulating seaweed-threads, meandering currents of stitching, embroidered flotsam, plastic bags and netting. The blend of the natural and trash worlds attracts and confuses sea life, in the Pacific and throughout earth’s ocean network. Of all that is disposed into oceans, plastic is the most insidious, attractive as food to fish and other sea animals. Especially devious are microfibers, the tiny bits of polyester and nylon washed out of our household textiles, and into the ocean food chain of popular food fish, abundant along the Pacific Rim. And ironically, the “eco” fleece clothing made from recycled water bottles is among the culprits. Science and collective resolve can change this dangerous new mix.
37” x 28” * 2019
Disappearing spirits of stitched tree branches move through pieced, hand-dyed fabric.
35"h x 30" w
2016
Juried into Global Murmurs, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2017 and Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition, 2018.
Drought creates migration, war, starvation. Precipitation decline, temperature rise and climate change, and fracking have all reduced snow pack, reservoirs, and ground water. Agriculture, industry, and natural ecology, and human consumption are threatened. A linear jumble of scraps, threads, and stitching suggest the complexities of the various ecosystems anchored by riverflow. But that flow decreases; it is now just a trickling filament---some precarious blue threads trailing away.
35"h x 35"w - commercial cotton, string, recycled fabric scraps. 2015
Juried into "Strata" SAQA Regional show by juror Yvonne Porcella, exhibited at several venues in Northern California.
Juried into Taiwan International Art Quilt show, 2016 in Tainan City, Taiwan and juried into "Evolutions 2017" at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, Colorado, 2017. Private collection.
39"h x 18"w - recycled scraps, string thread, commercial cottons. 2015
Private collection.
Juried into "The Engaged Object" Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, January 21 - March 28, 2016.
37"h x 36"w - recycled scraps, commercial cottons, poly threads. 2015.
12” x 12”
2019
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