TCAN Gallery

Inside Out: Art Quilts
Sandra Townsend Donabed, Silvia Epstein, Sarah Jane Gindel, Beatriz Grayson, Nancy Halpern, Vivian Kinzler, Linda Levin, Diane Tetrault, Jeanne Williamson

January 4, through January 30, 2000
Reception:January 8, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Click detail for full frame reproduction		Artists' Statements
Sandy Donabed Peter Finch Interviews a House Keeper	Silvia Epstein Interweave	Sandra Townsend Donabed I have always sewn, a legacy from my home-economics teacher mother. In addition I have always loved to experiment with new art techniques and tools so this small piece is the result of working with various printing and transfer processes on fabric. The heat-set transfer images and computer images on fabric soaked in a dye mordant chemical are from my own digital photographs. Hand embellishment techniques and machine stitches are added to enhance the "story" of those images. Last summer I had a bird move into a wreath on my porch. He didn't nest there, only used it as his motel room. We would slam doors and squeal cars in the driveway but he¹d come back each night at dusk and settle in under the porch light. Every evening I would talk to him, getting closer and closer until one night I even touched him. I thoroughly enjoyed checking on him and "tucking him in" for the night until I realized that he was really making a mess on my porch. Finally we parted ways and I do hope he is happily in someone else¹s wreath for this season. Here, I show him interviewing for a housekeeper, a job that was saved for me in the end.
Sarah Gindel Pulse	Beatriz Grayson Sewing by the Dining Table	Sarah Jane Gindel I was born in New Jersey in 1963. I attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York and finally graduated from Mass College of Art with a BFA in painting in 1986. I started quilting seriously in 1987. My most recent work is about my father's battle with cancer. When he was diagnosed last year I began studying internal body images such as cells, tissue, blood and tumors and became fascinated with their beauty. I have translated these body images onto fabric. I use hand dyed and commercial fabric. I hand appliqué and machine piece. My mother machine quilts and binds each quilt.
Nancy Halpern Where There's One There's Another	Vivian Kinzler Constant Craving	Nancy Halpern Nancy Halpern has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and has studied at Radcliffe and the Boston Architectural Center. She has taught quiltmaking for over twenty years, from Warsaw, Poland to Kyoto, Japan. Her prizewinning contemporary quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows, and published in numerous books and magazines. Her "Archipelago" was the first work commissioned by the New England Quilters' Guild for its museum.
Linda Levin Mangrove II	Diane Tetrault Kimonos in Motion
Jeanne Williamson Texture, Maps & Grids, Series #2		Jeanne Williamson Jeanne Williamson creates whole cloth quilts. She incorporates demographic maps that contrast with geometric shapes and stitched lines. The maps are created by her husband at work and Jeanne uses color transfers to iron them onto fabric after she has mono-printed textures on the fabric using fabric paint. The appliqué and hand stamped shapes create a collage effect. The appliqué was added by scribbling lines back and forth with her sewing machine, which adds texture to the quilt.

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