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Plum Dragon(Cosmic Illusion #34)
Salli McQuaid: (L) #34: Plum Dragon,
10x10h, matted, 2008. (R) reverse.
Materials and Techniques: Commercial textiles, specialty threads, fabric
paint.
Machine embroidery (resident and self-authored), piecing, and quilting.
Artist's Statement
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At a time in art history
when most art quilters are using hand-dyed and heavily
surface-manipulated fabrics, I combine commercial fabrics and
innovative piecing to express a vision or moment in time. The
message can be serious, humorous, or both.
To deepen the imagery, each
quilt contains self-authored machine embroidery, free-form quilting,
and a title. I believe that computer-generated stitches and images
are particularly important to the current development of the
quilt art medium. |
My
titles are important in a different way; they are succinct Haiku and key to discovering the meaning
of the quilt.
The art couples an individual sense of design with technique to create
an
abstract vision in metaphorical layers, much like the layers of a quilt.
Through these devices, the miniature Plum Dragon
speaks
on
many different levels; it is up to the viewer to hear them. |
Quilt History: In Studio
Art Quilt Associates 40th anniversary trunk show, Section C, 2009-10, where
it traveled broadly throughout the U.S. Archived in the permanent collection
of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, USA. The quilt was chosen, said art quilt expert and curator Sandra
Sider, because it "represents a particularly distinctive or original
approach." It is now available to researchers and students as a record of
the art quilt in 2009.
          
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