ArtistWriter
reflects a newly-emerging medium: textile art. The site will reveal
neo-illusionary textile pieces as artist Salli McQuaid creates them. She
titles her unique vision expressed in this series of art as "Cosmic
Illusions," which is apparent in the work.
McQuaid holds a Master's
Degree in Art from San Jose University and a black belt in Kuk Sool Won.
She began making art as a toddler and attended University of Oregon
(Eugene) art classes with her father at age 7. Throughout grade school
and high school she continued to make art and work with textiles.
Salli
McQuaid's art resides in national and international collections.
In the three years she has made fine art quilts, they have been
consistently selected for exhibitions. The current work Cosmic Illusions is, like her past art in
other mediums, carefully crafted and finished ready to hang. A fine art
quilt is displayed just like any other piece of two-dimensional art, but
tends to be much warmer because of its textures and physical depth.
Due to the quilt genre of which the
textile artworks are an extension, they will instantly acquire an
historical (Salli likes to say "hysterical") value that can be passed on
to future generations.
explore this site to find out how and
why the textile artworks are created
Here, you can see textile artwork that
Salli McQuaid creates, or -- privately, by contacting the artist --
acquire a new piece. Through her Artist's Statements, you can learn
about the artwork -- its construction, influences, conflicts, and/or
resolutions, first-hand.
McQuaid shares information in Salli's
Secrets. This page will share techniques to help make your
ideas work, or to make creating quilt art, easier. If you have an idea,
please submit it. Credit will be given.
Salli does not measure the value of her
work in time spent, but in love: love of the materials, the process,
and the theme she expresses. She spends untold hours making each
Cosmic Illusion. She considers the work finished only when it tells
her it is done.
come back
This website has been up since 1999. Since
McQuaid has made art for over five decades, creativity is now her first
nature. You might wish to return to this site to see what new challenges
she encounters and to follow the direction of the work. Since McQuaid is
both experienced and educated in creating art, her visions, no matter
how neo-illusionary, explore in an informed manner mainstream
pictorial art concerns.
Thank you
for taking your
time to visit us online.
