I am taking the title course above in Quilt Academy; it is taught by Elizabeth Barton. One of the first things she has asked us to do is evaluate our favorite quilt artists as to what they have made in the abstract category. First of my favorites, (I have many) is Deidre Adams. All of her work I am familiar with is abstract. As to the category, I think it would be abstract expressionism. Elizabeth defines this style as one in which the hand and the heart of the artist applies the paint... in this case fabric. Jackson Pollock is an example as well as De Kooning. This last example might be called organic abstraction... very naturalistic with shapes derived from nature and abstracts of the organic structure. I think my next artist falls in this category completely... Ruth McDowell Jane Sassaman also works in this fashion. She also uses repeat of patterns. Nancy Crow uses uses a geometric approach to abstraction. This was a path followed by the Cubists also. Now that I have gotten started, I hate to quit! Can't leave out Victoria Findley Wolf. She uses repeated pattern, geometry and pure abstraction.
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Sharon BuckI have always been an artist and with art quilts I have found a way to combine my two loves of painting and textiles. Archives
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