From the Inside Out: Exciting News from SDA

Friday, July 4, 2014

Exciting News from SDA

Elizabeth Adams-Marks and I are thrilled to announce we've won a Surface Design Association Small Events Grant for our exhibit From the Inside Out. The $500 grant is a welcome addition to our fund raising efforts for this show and will help pay for return shipping of art work and other expenses. Woo hoo!

Thank you SDA for supporting our efforts. It is greatly appreciated. This has been a challenging show to organize and we are so happy to have been awarded this money. Fund raising continues however because among the various expenses we anticipate, we are absolutely determined to create an exhibition catalog to top off the project.

Stay tuned for more news! And check out our sponsor page!

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From the Inside Out will have many interpretations as each artist brings her own ideas into this overarching theme; e.g. Rio, has a new body of rust print work, Core, that involves imagery evoking the core of the earth, or the core of the inner self. Elizabeth's handmade paper constructions attempt to capture the essence and remnants of the 19th century tin mines and china clay pits as seen still today from the air, through the earth and across the moors.

From the Inside Out also describes how eco printing and rusting processes work. Pat’s shibori rust fabrics are pipe wrapped, with string being the last item added. The rust prints outward from the surface of the pipe up through multiple layers of silk over a period of time. Similar things happen with eco dyeing as leaves and flowers, etc. are buried deep inside tightly folded bundles; or shibori stitched into felt, then steamed or simmered and finally cured for a few weeks before opening as Irit does. Irit's bark texture felt is an homage to the transplanted eucalyptus trees that have put their roots deep into the soil of Israel. The imagery is buried and waiting, like Fabienne’s memories and emotions, to bubble to the surface.

"I must confess: it’s an incurable virus. And I love to spread it. There is nothing more exhilarating to me than opening a bundle and letting myself be surprised by the result. It’s a gift to my heart or shall I say, to my inner child. It feeds me. It gives me joy. I’m first a colorist. I’ve tried many years to paint abstract textures like this, but I could not. In this dialogue with Nature, I get sometimes results beyond anything I could have dreamt of painting. By letting go of the illusion of control, more is realized. There is wisdom in that, to be applied to other areas of my life." ~Fabienne

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