Color Improvisations 3 - Art Quilts
With their expressive colours, geometric shapes and large formats, art quilts are reminiscent of the abstract paintings of the modern era. But the artfully designed exhibits are not made of paint and canvas, but of fabrics. Fabrics that have been painstakingly put together and quilted with an eye for successful compositions and with great attention to detail. The Museum Tuch + Technik in Neumünster is showing forty one of these “art quilts” by thirty eight artists in the international exhibition “Color Improvisations 3” (16 March - 22 September 2024). The quilts are on public display for the first time ever.
Image: Julie Sevilla Drake, Ghosts. Image above: Jean Howard, detail of She Loves Me.
The works are approximately two by two meters in size and provide an impressive insight into contemporary quilt art in the USA, Canada and New Zealand. Modern artists use the old technique, with which several layers of fabric are connected and fixed using accentuating stitching seams. When choosing their motifs, however, they freed themselves from traditional rules and patterns. Her works are improvisations of shapes and colours, always new and always fascinating.
Image: Barbara Kanaya, Crazy Twist.
The exhibition was curated by Nancy Crow www.nancycrow.com , who is also exhibiting one of her latest works in Neumünster. The American quilt icon from Ohio invested almost four years in selecting the exhibits. “For me, this process is like conducting an orchestra and getting the tones and sounds just right. I have tried to make the best possible selection so that everyone who views them can be carried away by the powerful and colourful performance that unfolds." Nancy Crow has taught quilting for more than 30 years and has exhibited numerous times in the United States and Europe, workshops and books and has influenced many quilters with her style.
Image: Barbara Kanaya, detail of Crazy Twist.
Color Improvisations 3 - Art Quilts is on show at Museum Tuch + Technik from 16 March - 22 September 2024.
Find out more and plan your visit:
www.tuchundtechnik.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen
Image: Julie Sevilla Drake, Ghosts. Image above: Jean Howard, detail of She Loves Me.
The works are approximately two by two meters in size and provide an impressive insight into contemporary quilt art in the USA, Canada and New Zealand. Modern artists use the old technique, with which several layers of fabric are connected and fixed using accentuating stitching seams. When choosing their motifs, however, they freed themselves from traditional rules and patterns. Her works are improvisations of shapes and colours, always new and always fascinating.
Image: Barbara Kanaya, Crazy Twist.
The exhibition was curated by Nancy Crow www.nancycrow.com , who is also exhibiting one of her latest works in Neumünster. The American quilt icon from Ohio invested almost four years in selecting the exhibits. “For me, this process is like conducting an orchestra and getting the tones and sounds just right. I have tried to make the best possible selection so that everyone who views them can be carried away by the powerful and colourful performance that unfolds." Nancy Crow has taught quilting for more than 30 years and has exhibited numerous times in the United States and Europe, workshops and books and has influenced many quilters with her style.
Image: Barbara Kanaya, detail of Crazy Twist.
Color Improvisations 3 - Art Quilts is on show at Museum Tuch + Technik from 16 March - 22 September 2024.
Find out more and plan your visit:
www.tuchundtechnik.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen