Detail View: University Art Galleries (UMassD): Quilt
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exhibition_title:
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Quilt Art Invitational
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exhibition_dates:
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October 1984
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exhibition_year:
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1984
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exhibition_location:
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SMU Art Gallery
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exhibition_note:
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Photographs documenting the Quilt Art exhibition.
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exhibition_genre:
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fiber art
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exhibition URL:
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http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/
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resourceID:
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14002_011_0032
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resource_type:
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slides
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copyright notice:
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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credit line:
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Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
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artist name:
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Fraas , Gayle J.
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artist name:
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Slade , Duncan W.
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artist_nationality:
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American (Maine)
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artist_vital dates:
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late 20th century - early 21st century
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artist_biographical note:
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Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade have been collaborating artists for over 30 years. Their work has always explored the relationship of ornamental surface and the portrayal of place. First setting up a studio in mid-coast Maine in 1975 they developed and continue to explore screen-printing and painting techniques on fabric. Throughout their career they have shared this knowledge in workshops nationally including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,Deer Isle, Maine; East Bay Heritage Quilters, Richmond California and the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Work has been selected for some of the defining touring exhibitions that have influenced the field of Art Quilts--"The New American Quilt" originating at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in 1976, "The Art Quilt" opening at the Los Angeles Municipal Museum in 1986, and "Six Continents of Quilts: the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Art and Design", NYC. currently touring internationally. Fraas - Slade's work is represented in the collections of Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA; The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design, NYC.; the corporate collections of John Nuveen Inc., Chicago; Fidelity Investments and the Hilton Corporation among others. Work appears in numerous publications including: Art to Wear by Julie Dale, The Art Quilt and Quilts Today by Robert Shaw and Paintings of Maine by Carl Little. In 1989 and 2003 the artist team received Maine Visual Artist Fellowships and in 1995 a National Endowment for the Arts / New England Foundation Visual Artists' Fellowship.
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artist_URL:
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http://www.fraasslade.com/homepage.html
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artist_reference:
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http://www.fraasslade.com/sbio.html
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work_title:
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Beach End, 40 x 40 inches
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work_title:
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Quilt
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work_medium:
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fiber
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work_technique:
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fiber arts - quilt
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work_date:
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ca. 1983
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work_note:
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Most of the work that we do is painted and printed with fiber-reactive dyes on cotton broadcloth. Each is a single top layer of fabric, layered with batting and backing fabric; this type of structure can be referred to as a whole cloth quilt. Widely used for commercial fabrics, fiber-reactive dyes, in our studio, are dissolved in water and mixed with a seaweed derived thickener, this allows us to paint, controlling the viscosity allowing for effects from painterly washes to clean sharp edges without bleeding. An alkaline chemical reaction binds the dye to the fabric, this involves pre-treatment of the fabric, painting and rinsing and repainting two to four times. Each time the fabric is washed the dye is 'set' allowing us to overlay color for desired effects. Most of our work is completely painted on one piece of fabric…sometimes we screen-print some pattern elements, but the textile industry has developed inkjet printers that allow us to transfer our pattern elements directly to the fabric with the same fiber-reactive dyes that we have been painting with for 30 years. Much of this pattern work is then overpainted to complete an effect. Patterns are digitally printed from original works painted and drawn on paper with gouache, pastel and charcoal. Works are machine and hand stitched. We consider a machine-stitched line a 'hard' line and handwork generally serving as a 'scrim' to view the painted work through, which also serves structurally to hold the layers together. Each has a layer of batting and backing fabric. The finished work is sewn to a stretched linen panel and framed and faced with Plexiglas creating an archival environment. 2008 Fraas-Slade
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work_reference:
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Private Colletion
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date_of_ record:
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2015
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name_cataloger:
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AC
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