Pieces of the Landscape
Solo exhibition at Mt Sinai Medical Center Skolnick Surgical Tower
January 11 – June 11, 2023
This series of art quilts combine found, new, and hand-made materials with geometric repeating patterns connected to tradition and storytelling. Salvaged discarded materials such as denim jeans, neoprene skirts, and sparkly dresses are cut into geometric shapes that detach the clothing’s intent. The textiles carry their specific histories and memories that are reimagined when combined with newer manipulated materials. Through burning, staining, painting, and hand-dying processes, a personal story is built into these works. The structures and patterning of these art quilts rebuild the fragmentation of material allowing the textiles to mix and create new narratives.
Images by Pedro Wazzan
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4300 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33140
January 11 – June 11, 2023
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Pieces of the Landscape
medium: second-hand clothing and linens, ink, watercolor, soot, handmade dyes from corrosion and plant material, muslin, thread, batting, wooden stretchers or mounts
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist
This series of art quilts combine found, new, and hand-made materials with geometric repeating patterns connected to tradition and storytelling. Salvaged discarded materials such as denim jeans, neoprene skirts, and sparkly dresses are cut into geometric shapes that detach the clothing’s intent. The textiles carry their specific histories and memories that are reimagined when combined with newer manipulated materials. Through burning, staining, painting, and hand-dying processes, a personal story is built into these works. The structures and patterning of these art quilts rebuild the fragmentation of material allowing the textiles to mix and create new narratives.