Back to the future

Well, this is my first test of whether or not I will return to blogging here instead of WordPress (where I will leave a trail of thread-crumbs).

Sadly, it’s a post about our favorite gallery in our latest hometown, closing after seven wonderful years. I made a wine bottle label so we could gift the owners with a collage of the seven paintings we purchased at Assemblage …

Then we headed over to say thank you to Jacquie and Geraldo for all the wonderful memories and to say good-bye to the space they curated …

Happily, they will still be living in town and their business will continue virtually, so it’s actually more of a fare-you-well … and thanks for the memories!

There and back again

Those of you who frequent this blog have probably figured out that my absences are either the dreaded "health issues" or happier grandkid excursions. Fortunately, the past ten days were spent journeying to and from St Louis, with only a minor cold or two thrown into the mix.

Our travels included a stop at the 108 Contemporary in Tulsa to see a combined exhibit by Jane Dunnewold and Mary Fisher.

Don and I were both taken by Jane's repurposing of quilt fragments, the backs of which were spackled (!), then embellished with stenciled paint ...

Or with graphite lines ...

which drew us in for a closer look ...

Likewise, Mary Fisher's work was intriguing, especially these forms ...

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Not a bad way to break up a 900 mile road trip.

8 thoughts on “There and back again”

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   Mo Crow
   April 1, 2019 at 7:01 pm
   had to look up the definition of spackled, Jane used plaster on the backs of her cloths like a rough gesso ground?
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   Liz A

   April 1, 2019 at 7:04 pm

   Mo – exactly … to very good effect! Now I’m regretting that I didn’t rescue a very ragged quilt top from the thrift store some time back. Next time I’ll know what to do.

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   1. deemallon

      April 1, 2019 at 8:07 pm

      takes balls, for sure. reminds me a bit of Rauschenberg’s works. The hanging ones are intriguing, to my mind, for being kind of gross. If you saw one of those floating near a culvert, for instance, I doubt you’d touch it. Inverted the idea of art being ‘pretty’?

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      1. Liz A

         April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm

         In Jane’s pieces I liked the idea of reinforcing cloth that is otherwise disintegrating … and of toning down the sometimes off-putting colors of 20th century quilt tops.

         As for Mary’s hanging pieces, for sure not something I’d want to live with. But I viewed them in the context of her experiences with AIDS and cancer … causing me to consider what remains after life-threatening illnesses and the treatments they necessitate.

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   2. Hazel

      April 3, 2019 at 1:27 am

      Wonderful exhibit! Thank you for sharing. The drawings make me want to get out a pencil…

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      1. Liz A

         April 3, 2019 at 3:35 pm

         Hazel – indeed … I’ve been thinking about trying gesso and Inktense pencils next time I come across some un-quilted patchwork at the thrift store

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   3. Barry

      April 8, 2019 at 7:10 am

      LA – I never cease to be amazed by the creativity of other artists. I would not have even thought to take the steps to do the work that adds other new dimensions to existing, worn or discarded pieces. B

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      1. Liz A

         April 12, 2019 at 2:52 am

         Galleries and museums are such wonderful sources of inspiration … playgrounds for creative makers

Joy-full

I went to a dyeing workshop a couple of years ago and brought home sample pieces that then sat unused because they felt too precious. My recent reorganization brought them together with other dye, rust and discharge trials ...

Then the peace pin project opened my hands to start letting them go. The truth is I find so much more satisfaction now seeing them out in the world rather than hidden away.

In fact, I'll be choosing from this lot in order to make a pin for a long-time friend from Virginia ...

who has since moved to California and started (yet another) design business ...

http://akinderspace.com/

There has been a new peace pin sighting in New York, from Jude who is most responsible for my journey into slow cloth:

http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/2017/04/only-puzzle-pieces.html

Which triggered an email requesting a peace pin from Laura in New Hampshire. Laura also sent a picture of a beautiful saori weaving she made for Earth Day, which I'm posting here with her permission ...

There was also this post about a peace pin landing on Hazel's Word cloth ...

http://handstories.typepad.com/blog/2017/04/peaces-pieces.html

that inspired my Remember 2016 cloth

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/search/label/Remember%202016

That in turn generated a comment from Shelly requesting a lavender pin ... but with no contact info, so I'm hoping she'll read this and send her mailing address to lizackert@gmail.com.

While I've been busy making pins, Don has kept busy, too. He found a funky duck in a Johnson City Gallery ...

which he has since stained and painted ...

He also scored a couple of pieces while we were antiquing with Williamsburg friends who stopped by for a couple of days ...

Love the business card, which reads in part, "raw materials for creative living" ...

I spotted some indigo Ikat while we were there, but it was a tad pricey. If it's still there next time, I might try to dicker them down. 

Lastly, we found a cool mixed media roadrunner painting at a Wimberley art show last weekend ...

which displaced the clock up and to the right in order to make room for it on this wall ...

So I'm thinking it was no coincidence that this fellow showed up when I drove into town today ...

No doubt about it ... roadrunners are aptly named!

- Ill-booten gotty

Retrospective (11/27)

Patch #300 Flounder gig

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Between beachcombing, the Seagreen Gallery, and the KDH Art Cooperative, we came home with our usual assortment of stuff ...

Is it any wonder the TSA always searches our bags?

- OBX Day 2

Retrospective (11/22)

Patch #297 How peeps might be paisley

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It's kinda fun when you realize you've passed on the "office supply store" gene. Seriously, our first stop after lunch yesterday was a trip to Staples!

As we awaited a healthier (than yesterday's) breakfast at Waveriders, Lo tried out the new markers ...

While we ate bagels, Don indulged in crumb cake and reminisced about having Entenmann's with his grandparents 50 years ago ...

"Just think Lo," I interjected, "50 years from now you could be eating crumb cake with your grandchild reminiscing about this moment."

Mind blown ...

The rest of the day was spent beach shop hopping in search of cloth so I could make a bag for Logan's book and markers to match the bag I made recently. We started at Jockey's Ridge ...

and were happy-beyond-words to find Seagreen Gallery open ...

after the hurricane two weeks ago ...

Of course we also spent a little time hangin' out with the peeps on the beach ...

And as the sun set in the west, it burnished the eastern horizon ...

Really, it just doesn't get much better than this.

- Weave me the sunshine

Retrospective (6/3/2016)

Patch #125 Rainbow ...

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We went to the Wildflower Center with G, letting him choose the way as we came to each fork in the pathways. Finding ourselves in the little art house beside the butterfly garden just before lunch, the sun shone down through the top of the glass door, painting a rainbow on the wall.

G has seen this before. "Catch the rainbow in your hand, Nana!" And so I did. Then invited him to do the same ... which he did, again and again. Had we let him, I do believe he would have stayed in this one spot all day.

And as I wrote this post, an old Peter, Paul and Mary tune played in my head, the second line changed to fit the memory:

"Weave, weave, weave me the sunshine

Out of the door and then
Weave me the hope of a new tomorrow
Fill my cup again"

"Good-bye rainbow."