NEWS UPDATE

Dianne Vottero Dockery, a SAQA PA PAM member, is a mixed media artist who has pieces in two shows in May. "Home on the Pueblo" will be exhibited in HOME: Interpreting the Familiar at GoggleWorks, Reading, Pennsylvania, beginning May 11 and continuing through June 23, 2013.  Opening reception for the show:  Friday, May 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

More information about the exhibition here:  HOME, Interpreting the Familiar

 

Her second piece, "Cerebral Commotion I" will be exhibited at the Small Works Salon, sponsored by the New Arts Program in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.  The Small Works Salon opens on Friday, May 24, 2013, and continues through July 14, 2013.  For more information about the New Arts Program and the Small Works Salon, please visit New Arts Program.

 

Summer Show: Save the date!

The La Salle University Art Museum is proud to present Emily Richardson: Shifting Vistas in Silk, on view June 13 until August 16, 2013. Opening reception, Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Fiber artist and PA SAQA member Emily Richardson composes in sheets of painted silk organza. Photograqphs of Richardson’s abstract fiber works resemble oil paintings or even encaustics with their rich, translucent strata. The work is at a glance barely recognizable as quilt-making, at least in the traditional bedcover sense. Hand constructed from painted cloth of varying degrees of transparency, colors painted on layers of fabric show through and optically mix. This is work that must be experienced in person for full effect.

Richardson begins her process with acrylic paint, painting on wet fabric in rich jewel tones, allowing and sometimes coaxing the paint to move and pool for variated effect. The painting is undertaken without a specific sense of how it might later be worked into a composition. Richardson prefers to let her work develop in the process. Working with pieces cut from the painted fabric, the artist then pins together parts that resonate together and work towards a finished whole. The patterns Richardson creates range from striped or grid like to faceted forms that evoke waves, mountains, and even Marcel Duchamp’s Cubo-Futurist oil painting Nude Descending a Stairway No.2 (1912). La Salle University Art Museum will present a selection of Richardson’s recent fiber works in the Special Exhibitions Gallery this summer.

Philadelphia based Richardson has exhibited nationally and internationally in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Madagascar, England and Japan.

The La Salle University Art Museum is located on the lower level of Olney Hall on the campus of La Salle University at 19th St. and Olney Ave. Summer hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday, except for the weeks of July 1 and August 12. The Art Museum will be open July 1-‐3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., August 12-‐15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and August 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free, though donations are accepted. For further information call 215.951.1221 or visit the website at http://www.lasalle.edu/museum/.

SHOW NEWS

Several SAQA members in the Pittsburgh area have mentioned the show going up this weekend, by all accounts it shouldn't be missed!

Fiberart International 2013

April 19, 2013 - August 18, 2013

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
6300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh
Society for Contemporary Craft
2100 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh
Opening Reception:
April 19, 2013 5:30pm to 9:00pm
Fiberart Forum: a dialog with the artists
April 20, 2013 - 9am to 3pm
Fiberart International 2013 is an exhibition of contemporary fiber art presented by the Fiberarts Guild Of Pittsburgh, Inc. It's located at both the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society For Contemporary Craft.

Members news:

Patty Kennedy-Zafred writes that she has work in the following shows:

Quilt National '13 (opening May 23)
National Fiber directions 2014 at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas (now through May 19)
Fantastic Fibers at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, Kenturck ( now through May3)



Nezka Pfeifer curator at The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art in Scranton is putting out a call for work for an upcoming show. She is looking for 2D work for a community show on skatedeck art. For more information go to: Everhart Museum  

 

MEET AND GREET PARLOR MEETING

SAQA PA is hosting a Meet and Greet Parlor Meeting  on May 5th, 2013.  It will be hosted in Danville, PA  at the Pine Barn In, 1 Pine Barn Place  from 12:30 until 4:30 PM (check www.pinebarninn.com for directions). We will gather, order our lunch from the menu, and hold a meeting  to discuss the frequency and direction we would like to see future Parlor Meetings take.

Parlor Meetings were developed by SAQA to address the needs of large spread-out regions, of which PA is one for sure. They are informal gatherings, open to all regional members, but meant to encourage members who live in fairly close proximity to gather, socialize, exchange ideas, share information and resources, support one another and generally develop a local SAQA community that serves their particular needs in an ongoing basis.

For this Meet and Greet Parlor Meeting  participants are asked to bring; contact information to exchange with others, (this could be a postcard, business card, or 3X5 card) a piece or two of your work to share and ideas of what they want future SAQA Pennsylvania Parlor Meetings to be. Feel free to email your ideas to Meredith (meredithea@verizon.net) if you are unable to attend or want them on listed ahead of time on a handout.


If you, or another SAQA member you know, would like to host, or co-host a Parlor Meeting, either in your home or at a public location, let me know (meredithea@verizon.net). That would be fantastic!

 

 

SAQA PENN quilter - Sue Reno

This is our first visit in our region with our fellow artist Sue Reno. Sue works in a myriad of transfer techniques and stitching styles to artfully document the plants and architectural images she find of interest. She is also working with photography and is using her fisheye and macro lens to create remarkable work. 

"Skunk and Garlic Mustard"
50" x 51"

I’ve come to realize that I am primarily a storyteller.  I’ve spent as much as much of my life as possible either roaming the wooded hills of Pennsylvania, or grubbing about in my organic garden.  The simple truths I’ve discovered through continued and minute observation form the basis of what I convey through my fiberart.  Recently I’ve added the portrayal of historic architecture transformed by adaptive reuse to my repertoire.

I’ve been sewing since I was a small child, and have a firm grounding in solid craft practice.  I enjoy using my skills to push the traditional craft of quilt making into the current milieu.  I employ surface design techniques including cyanotypes, heliographic prints, and image transfers as the basis for works that also incorporate unusual and hand painted fabrics, hand and machine stitching, and beadwork.

You can view my work and follow my textile and travel adventures at:

website: http://suereno.com
blog: http://suereno.blogspot.com
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/suerenostudio

twitter: http://twitter.com/suereno

Recently I’ve become enamored with iphoneography, especially using specialty macro and fisheye lenses.  I am continually adding photos to my Flickr account; there’s a link to it on the sidebar of my blog, or use this:

http://flic.kr/ps/rs9Dq

Parisian window shopping

Cool window design in Paris. Finding appreciation in a simple palette after working with so much color this week.

Sakura Spring

Cherry Blossom Pink. In Japan, a country with one of the finest aethetics in the world, the Sakura is venerated and celebrated. In the US we have cherry trees that were donated by Japan set in our capitol city and Subaru has a Cherry Blossom Festival in our nearby Philadelphia in April. Post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh also appreciated the Japanese ukiyo-e prints and during a period called the Japonaiserie said "All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art..."

Some pictures during Sakura time to enjoy and find inspiration:

Van Gogh - Almond Blossoms

Sakura modern

ukiyo-e sakura

Van Gogh Cherry Blossoms