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

 

Printing with Ink and Paint Textured Thermofaxes

In my last post I shared a method that I use to create thermofaxes for my textured backgrounds. Now it’s time to print some fabric with my altered ink and paint texture thermofax! Below is the thermofax image used to create the textures for an ArtCloth piece called Moon Dance.

After masking out areas that I wanted to remain free of color with freezer paper, I used opaque textile paint mixed to match the purple background (tone on tone).

Then after masking the newly printed purple background and figure, I did the second printing in yellow textile paint for the moon.

And finally after some hand painting, stamping and beading below is Moon Dance finished.

Moon Dance, 60x40”.

Materials; MX dyes, discharge, fabric paint, and glass beads on Fuji silk broadcloth.

Hand dyed, discharged, thermofax screened, hand printed, hand painted and beaded.

It is enthralling to watch a piece of cloth transformed from flat plane to a luminous field of dimension with this technique!