Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists

2024-11-22T20:52:06+00:00November 15, 2024|

A Network (n): an arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
To Network (v): to connect as or operate with a network.
To Weave (v): To make (a complex story or pattern) from a number of interconnected elements.

November 4, 2024 – January 4, 2025
Brentwood Arts Exchange
Artist Talk: Saturday, December 7, 2024, 2pm-4pm

New Image Artists is a group of professional fiber and mix media artists who have been exhibiting together and individually for over 40 years. They are trailblazers and innovators working in a medium that has only recently gained solid support from the leading institutions in the art world. While each artist has her own studio process and conceptual aims, they are united by their dedication to their art and a creative camaraderie which has grown over years of meeting and exhibiting together.

This group exhibit, Beyond Networks, highlights work by New Images Artists that explores the meaning of networks and is intended to draw attention to how the processes inherent in the creation of textile art as well as the “encoding of meaning” have been mirrored in the invention and development of digital social networks.

Unlike the recent advent of online networks, the cultural and artistic history of textiles has developed internationally over millennia. Indeed, the invention of the Jacquard Loom in the 19th century in Europe which used punch cards to automate the weaving of complex patterns inspired the creation of the first computer.

Beyond Networks seeks to create a conversation about meaning and personal expression in a complex, wired and networked world.  The viewer will experience a variety of styles and techniques in Beyond Networks from the gestural work of Dominie Nash to the more structured work of Cathy Kleeman. While Nash and Kleeman work with quilted fabric, their studio methods and imagery are different . The variety of techniques is also demonstrated by contrasting the crisp representational work of B.J. Adams that is created with thread and a sewing machine with the hand built work of Joan Dreyer’ “Multiverse”, Saaraliisa Yitalo’s “Flooding In”, or Mary Beth Bellah’s “Mend the Web”.

-Mary Welch Higgins

Photo Credit: Greg Staley 

  • Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists
  • Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists
  • Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists
  • Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists
  • Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists

The Word Shepard by Linda Colsh

2024-02-27T23:12:35+00:00February 27, 2024|

The Word Shepard by Linda Colsh

The Word Shepard by Linda Colsh

48" x 24", Fiber Art

The art of Linda Colsh explores humanist themes in three areas of interest: ageing, the environment, and migration. With an affinity for the unnoticed, the displaced and the invisible, she chooses her subject matter from urban streets or rural woods, farms and creeks. Growing up on a small island in the Chesapeake Bay gave her a keen appreciation of nature. Her interest in people and cultures derives from a quarter century of experience as an American expat traveling the cities of Europe and Asia. In 2014, the family returned to Maryland, settling on a quiet hilltop in the Middletown Valley.

Each work begins with plain cloth or paper that she alters with paint, stain, dye, discharge and ink. Her instinct is to work in a minimal neutral palette within a wide value range. Her process is weighted to designing content from her photographs and drawings, before layering and stitching together as fiber art for the wall or pedestal- or ceiling-mounted pieces.

A lifelong artist with degrees in the history of art, Linda Colsh exhibits internationally. Highlights include selection for Latvia’s International Textile & Fibre Art Triennial, the Fuller Craft Biennial and several Fiber Art Now Excellence in Fibers exhibitions. Her career includes solo exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Korea; and the United States. She has juried, judged and curated major international exhibitions, including Quilt Nihon, Visions, Quilt National and the National Quilt Museum’s 20th Anniversary. Her work is published worldwide and is held in public, private and corporate collections, including the Collection of John M. Walsh III, Lore Degenstein Gallery Permanent Collection, International Quilt Museum and Germany’s Nordwolle Textile Museum. Among her awards are the European Quilt Triennial first prize, Maryland Federation of Art’s Art on Paper Juror’s Choice Award and Nihon Vogue’s Quilts Japan Prize.

Please follow Linda Colsh on Instagram at @lcolsh

Ghost Writing 2 by Dominie Nash

2024-02-26T14:21:12+00:00February 26, 2024|

Ghost Writing 2 by Dominie Nash

Ghost Writing 2 by Dominie Nash

59" x 20", Fabric Collage

Dominie Nash

Dominie, a founding member of New Image Artists, is inspired by the natural world. Her work has subtly and a feeling of spontaneity.  Her textile art feels to me like a poem written in response to an observed moment in nature. What interest me about the work “Ghost Writing” is the mark marking and drawn quality of the work.

Biography

Dominie Nash is a self-taught textile artist working in a studio in Washington DC.. Her work is included in the collections of the International Quilt Museum, Renwick Gallery,International Monetary Fund, Braintree District Museum (England),Kaiser Permanente,San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles,and DC Art Bank. A recipient of 2001 and 2012 Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and a 2010 Creative Projects grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD), and has received awards in juried exhibits. She has exhibited widely in group exhibits, nationally and in Europe and Japan and has had numerous solo exhibits in the DC area and around the country. Her work has been published in Art Quilts Unfolding,Artistry in Fiber:Wall Art, Art Quilt Portfolio:The Natural World, Quilting Art by Spike Gillespie, 500 Art Quilts, Surface Design, American Craft,Embroidery, Quilt Art by Kate Lenkowsky, The Art Quilt by Robert Shaw , and Fiberarts Design Books 2-7.

Please follow Dominie on Instagram at @dominiemaria

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