Last week, I went to the Pence Gallery for the “12 Voice” Exhibition. There’re quilts from different artists with distinct styles and representations. The use and combination of organic shapes and colors bring out individual feeling and messages to art pieces. From the pile of collection, the “Book of Hours 4” by Joan Schulze is the first piece I fell in love with at the first sight.
“Book of Hours” 4 was made in 2008 at Sunnyvale, California. Artist, Joan Schulze, stated that “It is not a question of realism, but of finding new and fresh visual thinking…” This quilt is made by collaging variety pieces of textiles and images together. They’re made by silk, cotton and paper. Main techniques that Schulze used was glue transfer process, machine pieced and quilted. There are piecing and stitching of different pieces with variety of textiles and photographs. If you see close up, there’re diagonal lines of sewing to balance with the vertical and horizontal combination of fabrics.
Personally, I like the way it has so many information in a piece and our eyes are busy going around the piece, interpreting different ideas and messages from the artist. The shapes and color use are also my favorite things of the piece. Schulze used subtle colors in the center of the piece, like pure blue and grey to reduce the business of the whole piece. The brighter color use, like orange, light blue, cyan and dark colors around the edge are appealing as well. Even though the piece is combined by different small pieces of fabrics, I like how some patterns sort of connect together by repeating shapes and connecting lines. I also enjoy how Schulze uses images and textures, yet they look quite united putting together. Moreover, Schulze added some yellow paint at the top of the piece to create a focus point from the busy and informational patterns.
The other piece that I’m interested in is “Journey” by Linda Colsh. It’s made in Belgium at 2006. Colsh says “Each of my quilts in 12 Voices is a narrative about a real person whom I photographed…knowing nothing about her, I think about her, and draw or write about her in my notebooks. “ Colsh develop her character and made up the life and background. As we can see, Colsh mainly uses pale and cold colors for this piece which is totally different from the warm and enthusiastic color of the form piece which really matches with the loneliness from the character’s back. Instead of combining cotton patches, Colsh painted and printed some of her photographs and drawings and collage them together. Even though there’re also some different sizes of patches combining together, it looks less busy than the former one because of the textile and tone of the whole. The three black vertical lines helped direct where viewer’s eye should go and made a focal point for the piece. The repetition of pattern, the person’s back view, at both horizontal edges also balances out with the black lines.
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