Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes work by Luke Haynes, Gillian Bates & Alexandra Walters
Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes is the first exhibition at 360SEE to feature fabric and fiber art work.
While fiber art is often abstract and can feel unaccessible to many, this exhibition shows amazingly well executed fabric pieces that are approachable both in subject matter (portraits, scenes, and the depiction of representational objects) and in (painting like) presentation.
The exhibition will feature (6) wall hanging portrait quilts by, practicing architect and fine art quilter, Luke Haynes.
Subverting the traditional quilting form by integrating modern concepts, Haynes’ art transforms the comfortably familiar into the visually evocative.
The large Haynes’ quilts will be joined by embroidered / stitched pieces by Alexandra Walters and Gillian Bates.
Montana via Kansas City based artist Alexandra (Alex) Walters, explores the identity of illness and the promises of drug marketing from the perspective of a military wife and mother with her sewn series of (5) prescriptions piece titled The Promise of Pills.
These “painterly” stitched pills and bottles done in silk, cotton, and rayon floss evoke the promised mood altering result of each medicine with a well chosen found fabric background.
English artist Gillian Bates will round out the exhibition with (3) illustrative feeling works comprised of stitched line drawings of people and scenes colored in with scrap fabrics on canvas.
Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes
featuring work by Luke Haynes
Gillian Bates, & Alexandra Walters
9.11.09 – 11.1.09
Opens 9.11.09 6-9pm
360SEE
1924 N. Damen Avenue Chicago
IL 60647
P: 773.698.6340
www.360SEEgallery.com
info@360SEEgallery.com
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