Talk about your art! by Regina Marzlin

Field Notes 1-20

In the fall of last year, I drove to a small art gallery about an hour's drive away from my home to see an exhibition. The work shown was by a Nova Scotian painter and printmaker, Bob Hainstock. I admire his abstracted landscapes and his use of colour. While I was looking at the exhibited pieces, I got talking with the gallery owner. We had a very nice chat about the artist's work, what I admired about it and how I thought it related to my own work. She asked a lot of questions about my own work, not having heard of me before. 

My visit took an unexpected turn right there! She asked me if I was interested in showing in her gallery in the next year, and basically offered me a solo show on the spot. I was very surprised and agreed, of course. The space is great, it would be wonderful to have the whole gallery to myself and fill it with my art. I drove home with my head spinning, and wondering if it all would work out. The gallerist really hadn't seen my art at all, so I just hoped she wouldn't renege on her offer.

Fast forward one year, and my exhibition opened on August 28th, 2023. I'm very happy to have this opportunity to see this body of work in one room, and for other people to get to know my work as I hadn't shown in this area of my province so far.

The body of work I'm showing has been made during the last four years and mainly consists of stitched collages made with my monoprinted fabrics. These prints are made with natural material that I collect and is a snapshot of my immediate surroundings. The title of the exhibition is "Field Notes", referring to the character of a botanical expedition and exploration of the nature around me. 

I will also teach a class about mono printing with natural materials at the gallery, to tie in with the exhibition.

It is important to have some engaging words at the ready to talk about your art, to describe it to people even without the help of visuals so they can get interested in what you do. You never know where this will lead!

Field Notes: Hidden Away

 Regina Marzlin "Field Notes", August 28th - September 23rd 2023, Visual Voice Fine Art, Truro, Nova Scotia

To see all pieces in the exhibition, go to

Visual Voice Fine Art | Unique Works by Talented Artists (visual-voice.ca)

Open Space Now on View at the Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX

The show continues until December 17, so see it while you still can.  Many thanks to Sherri Lipman McCauley for all her hard work on this show.  

Click here to our virtual catalog for Open Space.

Click here for information on the venue.

Mary Vaneecke is Stitching Stories

 ACN member Mary Vaneecke's work Abuela Reads the Headlines is now on view at the Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona as part of the Art Quilts XXVI exhibition.  The theme this year is Stitching Stories.  The online juror Ellen Blalock's gallery talk will be on Thursday, December 2 at 5:30 MST.  You can register for the online event by clicking here. 

The collage includes found objects, hand-dyed vintage linens and commercial fabrics, hand-felted and beaded wool rope layered over shibori with machine stitched headlines about the Obama immigrant detention camps.  

Abuela Reads the Headlines, 55'' x 84''

Abuela Reads the Headlines, detail

Falling Into Layers at Blue Door Art Center

The Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, NY is hosting their exhibition Falling into Layers: Contemporary Art Quilts from October 7-30.  The show will feature work by Art Cloth Network members Barbara Schulman and Mary Vaneecke.  

Two works from Mary's Samaras series are included.  An image of bladderwort plants and maple seeds scattered on water inspired the series.  Mary is interested in how humans deal with chaos, find beauty there, and relinquish control in the face of it.  

See more of the series at www.maryvaneecke.com

Off the Wall II (94'' by 24'') by Mary Vaneecke 

Samaras Really Do Grow on Trees (36'' by 36") by Mary Vaneecke

 

Exhibition: Anything Goes

The Art Cloth Network is proud to announce a gallery showing of our exhibition entitled Anything Goes. Members were challenged to create art cloth in response to the theme Anything Goes. Unlike earlier exhibitions there was no size requirement. The exhibition is currently on display at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles Porcella Gallery in San Jose, California. It runs now through January 15, 2017. Below are several photos taken at the Museum.

Thanks for Connie Tiegel for helping the Museum set up the show and for getting these pictures to me. Here is a link to the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles: http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/

And here is a link to close-ups of the show entries on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/32421347/Anything-Goes






On January 14, 2017 Mary Vaneecke will give a presentation         
entitled "Confessions of a Subversive Stitcher". The presentation
will begin at 1:00 and be followed by a reception.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1791959361043501/

If you are in the San Jose area please drop by and see the exhibition.